The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 9

Memories get stronger when you repeat them, sleep helps fix them as the brain replays the day, and spacing practice over several days works better than cramming.

Who acts: Memories, you, sleep, brain · What happens: get, repeat, help, fix, replay, space · To what, where: Memories, practice

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 (Memories, you, sleep, brain), 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	Memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 get	xcomp
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 repeat	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 repeat	nsubj
6	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 repeat	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 helps	punct
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 helps	nsubj
10	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 get	advcl
11	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 helps	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fix	obj
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 replays	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brain	det
15	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 replays	nsubj
16	replays	replay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fix	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 replays	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 works	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 works	cc
21	spacing	space	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 works	nsubj
22	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spacing	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 days	case
24	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 days	amod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 practice	nmod
26	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 helps	conj
27	better	good	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 works	advmod
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 cramming	mark
29	cramming	cram	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 works	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Memories			strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	repeat	present	you	Memories = memory			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	help	present	sleep				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	fix	infinitive	sleep not said here	Memories = memory			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	replay	present	the brain		day		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	space	gerund		practice	over several days		tree rules
7	work	present				good property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	cram	gerund					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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 ×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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