The brain and nerves, sentence 15
Brain freeze happens when very cold food chills the roof of the mouth quickly; blood vessels there change size and nerves send a pain signal felt in the forehead; slowing down and warming the roof of the mouth with your tongue makes it pass soon.
Who acts: Brain freeze, cold food, blood vessels, nerves, slowing, roof · What happens: happen, chill, change, send, feel, slow down · To what, where: roof, size, pain signal
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 freeze, cold food, blood vessels, nerves), 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 freeze | compound |
| 2 | freeze | freeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 chills | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 food | amod |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chills | nsubj |
| 8 | chills | chill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happens | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chills | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mouth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouth | det |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roof | nmod |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 chills | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 vessels | punct |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vessels | compound |
| 17 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 change | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 vessels | advmod |
| 19 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happens | parataxis |
| 20 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 send | cc |
| 22 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 send | nsubj |
| 23 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 change | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 signal | det |
| 25 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 signal | compound |
| 26 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 send | obj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 signal | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 forehead | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 forehead | det |
| 30 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 slowing | punct |
| 32 | slowing | slow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 makes | csubj |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 slowing | compound:prt |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 warming | cc |
| 35 | warming | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 slowing | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 roof | det |
| 37 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 warming | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 mouth | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mouth | det |
| 40 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 roof | nmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 tongue | case |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 43 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 warming | obl |
| 44 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 happens | parataxis |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 makes | obj |
| 46 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 makes | xcomp |
| 47 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 pass | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Brain freeze | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | chill | present | cold food | the roof of the mouth | quickly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus roof=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | change | present | blood vessels | size | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient | ||||
| 4 | send | present | nerves | a pain signal | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | participle | a pain signal not said here | in the forehead | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in forehead=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | slow down | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | warm | gerund | the roof of the mouth | with your tongue | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent roof=Patient with tongue=Instrument | ||||
| 8 | make | present | slowing | roof | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | pass | infinitive | roof not said here | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:15.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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