The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 1

Nerves are the body's wires: messages race along them, the fastest at about 120 metres a second, from your skin to your brain and from your brain to your muscles.

Who acts: Nerves, messages · What happens: be, race · To what, where: wires, fastest, skin

This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nerves, messages), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wires	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wires	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wires	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 body	case
6	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 race	punct
8	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 race	nsubj
9	race	race	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wires	parataxis
10	along	along	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 race	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fastest	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fastest	det
14	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 race	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 metres	case
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 120	advmod
17	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 metres	nummod
18	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fastest	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 metres	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 skin	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 skin	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 skin	nmod:poss
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 race	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 brain	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brain	nmod:poss
27	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skin	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 brain	cc
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 brain	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brain	nmod:poss
31	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brain	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 muscles	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 muscles	nmod:poss
34	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 skin	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wires	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nerves	the body's wires					tree rules
2	race	present	messages	the fastest		your skin to your brain and your brain to your muscles		along Nerves = nerve	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along they=Trajectory

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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