The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 15

The brain floats in fluid inside the hard skull, and a helmet spreads and softens a blow; after a hard knock to the head you should rest and see a doctor.

Who acts: brain, helmet, you · What happens: float, spread, soften, rest, see · To what, where: fluid, blow, doctor

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 (brain, helmet, you), 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	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	nsubj
3	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fluid	case
5	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	obl
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 skull	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 skull	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 skull	amod
9	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floats	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spreads	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spreads	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 helmet	det
13	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spreads	nsubj
14	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 floats	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 softens	cc
16	softens	soften	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 spreads	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blow	det
18	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 softens	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 rest	punct
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 knock	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 knock	det
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 knock	amod
23	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rest	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knock	nmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 rest	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 rest	aux
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 floats	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 see	cc
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 rest	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 doctor	det
33	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floats	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	the brain		fluid		inside the hard skull	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fluid=Source inside skull=Trajectory
2	spread	present	a helmet					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	soften	present	a helmet not said here	a blow				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient
4	rest	should	you			after a hard knock to the head		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	infinitive	you not said here	a doctor				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus

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:15.

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, 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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