The brain and nerves, sentence 1

It talks to the body through nerves, long thin wires of living cells; the thick main cable, the spinal cord, runs down inside the bones of your back.

Who acts: brain, thick main cable · What happens: talk, live, run down · To what, where: nerves, bones

This is a sentence of the lesson «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, thick main cable), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talks	nsubj
2	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 body	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talks	obl
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 nerves	case
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wires	punct
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wires	amod
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wires	amod
11	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nerves	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cells	case
13	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 cells	amod
14	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wires	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 talks	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cable	det
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cable	amod
18	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cable	amod
19	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 runs	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cord	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cord	det
22	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cord	amod
23	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cable	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 runs	punct
25	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talks	parataxis
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 runs	advmod
27	inside	inside	ADP	_	29 bones	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bones	det
29	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 runs	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bones	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	talk	present	brain	nerves	to the body	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to body=Co-Agent
2	live	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run down	present	the thick main cable	the bones of your back	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside bone=Trajectory

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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:1.

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 ×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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