The brain and nerves, sentence 10
The brain has two halves; the left half mostly controls the right side of the body and the right half controls the left side.
Who acts: brain, left half, right half · What happens: have, control · To what, where: two halves, right side, left side
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, left half, right half), 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 | 2 brain | det |
| 2 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 halves | nummod |
| 5 | halves | half | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 8 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 half | amod |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 controls | nsubj |
| 10 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 11 controls | advmod |
| 11 | controls | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 controls | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 controls | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 half | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 half | amod |
| 21 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 controls | nsubj |
| 22 | controls | control | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 controls | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 side | det |
| 24 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 side | amod |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 controls | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the brain | two halves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient | ||||
| 2 | control | present | the left half | the right side of the body | mostly property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | |||
| 3 | control | present | the right half | the left side | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:10.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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