The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 5
A reflex is a quick action where the message goes to the spinal cord, which sends the order straight back without waiting for the brain, saving a fraction of a second.
Who acts: reflex, message, spinal cord · What happens: be, go, send, wait, save · To what, where: quick action, spinal cord, order, fraction
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 (reflex, message, spinal cord), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 reflex | det |
| 2 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 action | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 action | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 action | det |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 action | amod |
| 6 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 goes | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 message | det |
| 9 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 action | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 cord | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cord | det |
| 13 | spinal | spinal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cord | amod |
| 14 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sends | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sends | nsubj |
| 17 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cord | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 order | det |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sends | obj |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 back | advmod |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 sends | advmod |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 waiting | mark |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 back | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 brain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brain | det |
| 26 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waiting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saving | punct |
| 28 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sends | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fraction | det |
| 30 | fraction | fraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saving | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 second | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 second | det |
| 33 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fraction | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 action | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a reflex | a quick action | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | the message | the spinal cord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cord=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | send | present | the spinal cord | the order | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | the spinal cord not said here | for the brain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | save | gerund | the spinal cord not said here | a fraction of a second | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fraction=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:5.
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): 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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