The brain and nerves, sentence 14
Each time you practise something, the connections between the nerve cells involved get stronger, so the memory gets easier to find.
Who acts: you, connections, memory · What happens: practise, involve, get, find · To what, where: something, nerve cells
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 (you, connections, memory), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 practise | nsubj |
| 4 | practise | practise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 practise | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 connections | det |
| 8 | connections | connection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | nsubj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 cells | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cells | det |
| 11 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cells | compound |
| 12 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 connections | nmod |
| 13 | involved | involve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cells | acl |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gets | conj |
| 15 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 get | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gets | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 gets | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 memory | det |
| 19 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gets | nsubj |
| 20 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 gets | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 easier | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise | present | you | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | involve | participle | the nerve cells not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | present | the connections between the nerve cells | strong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | get | present | the memory | time | easy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | the memory not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:14.
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): R7-rel-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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