The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 10

The left half of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right half controls the left, because nerves cross over in the brainstem, the stalk that joins the brain to the spinal cord.

Who acts: left half, right half, nerves, stalk · What happens: control, cross over, join · To what, where: right side, left, brainstem, brain

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 (left half, right half, nerves, stalk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 half	det
2	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 half	amod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 controls	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brain	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 half	nmod
7	controls	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 side	amod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 controls	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 body	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 body	det
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 controls	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 half	det
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 half	amod
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 controls	nsubj
18	controls	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 controls	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 left	det
20	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 controls	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cross	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 cross	mark
23	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cross	nsubj
24	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 controls	advcl
25	over	over	ADV	_	24 cross	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 brainstem	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brainstem	det
28	brainstem	brainstem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cross	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stalk	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stalk	det
31	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brainstem	appos
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 joins	nsubj
33	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 stalk	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 brain	det
35	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 joins	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	39 cord	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cord	det
38	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 cord	amod
39	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 joins	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 controls	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	control	present	the left half of the brain	the right side of the body			vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme
2	control	present	the right half	the left			vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent left=Theme
3	cross over	present	nerves		the brainstem	over property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	join	present	the stalk	the brain		to the spinal cord	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent brain=Patient to cord=Co-Patient

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:10.

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): R5-strong ×2. 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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