The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 12

Sitting on a nerve squashes it and stops its messages for a while, and the tingle of pins and needles is the nerve waking up; moving the leg about helps it wake.

Who acts: Sitting, tingle, nerve, half, pins · What happens: sit, squash, stop, be, wake up, move · To what, where: nerve, half, messages, leg

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 (Sitting, tingle, nerve, half), 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	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 squashes	csubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 nerve	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nerve	det
4	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
5	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 squashes	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stops	cc
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 squashes	conj
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 messages	nmod:poss
10	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stops	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 while	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 while	det
13	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stops	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nerve	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 nerve	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tingle	det
17	tingle	tingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nerve	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 pins	case
19	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tingle	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 needles	cc
21	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pins	conj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 nerve	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nerve	det
24	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squashes	conj
25	waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 nerve	acl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 waking	compound:prt
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 moving	punct
28	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 squashes	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 leg	det
30	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 moving	obj
31	about	about	SCONJ	_	32 helps	mark
32	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 moving	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 helps	obj
34	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 helps	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 squashes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	gerund			a nerve		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nerve=Location
2	squash	present	Sitting	half			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	stop	present	Sitting not said here	half's messages		while	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality message=Eventuality
4	is a	present	the tingle of pins and needles	the nerve			tree rules
5	wake up	gerund	the nerve not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	move	gerund	Sitting not said here	the leg			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
7	help	present	Sitting not said here	half			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	wake	infinitive	half not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	tingle		pins and needles				nom tingle «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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