The brain and nerves, sentence 16
The spinal cord is a thick bundle of nerves running through a tunnel in the bones of the spine, carrying messages between the brain and the body.
Who acts: spinal cord, nerves, thick bundle · What happens: be, run, carry · To what, where: thick bundle, tunnel, messages
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 (spinal cord, nerves, thick bundle), 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 | 3 cord | det |
| 2 | spinal | spinal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cord | amod |
| 3 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bundle | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bundle | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bundle | det |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bundle | amod |
| 7 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nerves | case |
| 9 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bundle | nmod |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 nerves | acl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 tunnel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tunnel | det |
| 13 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 running | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bones | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 running | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spine | det |
| 19 | spine | spine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bones | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carrying | punct |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bundle | acl |
| 22 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carrying | obj |
| 23 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 brain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brain | det |
| 25 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 body | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 body | det |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brain | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bundle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the spinal cord | a thick bundle | of nerves | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | nerves not said here | a tunnel | in the bones of the spine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tunnel=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | a thick bundle not said here | messages | between the brain and the body | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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:16.
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): no change. 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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