The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 14

You cannot tickle yourself because your brain predicts the feeling of your own fingers and makes it weaker; tickling needs surprise.

Who acts: You, brain, tickling · What happens: not tickle, predict, make, tickle, need · To what, where: yourself, feeling, brain, surprise

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 (You, brain, tickling), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tickle	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tickle	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tickle	advmod
4	tickle	tickle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 tickle	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 predicts	mark
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brain	nmod:poss
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 predicts	nsubj
9	predicts	predict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tickle	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feeling	det
11	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 predicts	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 fingers	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fingers	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fingers	amod
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feeling	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 makes	cc
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 predicts	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 makes	obj
19	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 makes	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 tickling	punct
21	tickling	tickle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 needs	csubj
22	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tickle	parataxis
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tickle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tickle	can	You	yourself		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Experiencer
2	predict	present	your brain	the feeling of your own fingers		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feeling=Topic
3	make	present	your brain not said here	brain	weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	tickle	gerund				vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	need	present	tickling	surprise		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surprise=Theme

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:14.

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): no change. 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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