The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 6
The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to thousands of others.
Who acts: brain, billion nerve cells · What happens: weigh, have, connect · To what, where: 1.4 kilograms, billion nerve cells, each
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, billion nerve cells), 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 brain | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weighs | amod |
| 3 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weighs | nsubj |
| 4 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 1.4 | advmod |
| 6 | 1.4 | 1.4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kilograms | nummod |
| 7 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weighs | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 has | cc |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weighs | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 86 | advmod |
| 11 | 86 | 86 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 billion | compound |
| 12 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cells | nummod |
| 13 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cells | compound |
| 14 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 connected | punct |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cells | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 thousands | case |
| 19 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 connected | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 others | case |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thousands | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weighs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weigh | present | the brain | 1.4 kilograms | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the brain not said here | billion nerve cells | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | ||||
| 3 | connect | participle · passive | billion nerve cells not said here | each | to thousands of others | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to thousand=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:6.
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 ×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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