The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 8

Brain scans show that we use all parts of the brain, though not all at once, so the «10 percent» idea is a myth.

Who acts: Brain scans, we, percent idea · What happens: show, use, be · To what, where: parts, myth

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 scans, we, percent idea), 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	Brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scans	compound
2	scans	scan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 use	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 show	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 parts	det
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 brain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brain	det
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 parts	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 all	mark
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 all	advmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 use	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 all	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 myth	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	28 myth	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 idea	det
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 percent	punct
22	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 percent	nummod
23	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 idea	compound
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 percent	punct
25	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 myth	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 myth	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 myth	det
28	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	Brain scans			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	present	we	all parts of the brain	all obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
3	is a	present	the percent idea	a myth		tree rules

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:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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