The brain and nerves, sentence 5

The adult brain weighs about 1.3 to 1.4 kg and is soft like tofu; it is protected by the skull and floats in a clear fluid that cushions it.

Who acts: adult brain, skull, clear fluid · What happens: weigh, be, protect, float, cushion · To what, where: 1.3, brain, clear fluid

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 (adult brain, skull, clear fluid), 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 brain	det
2	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brain	compound
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weighs	nsubj
4	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 1.3	advmod
6	1.3	1.3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	4 weighs	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 1.4	case
8	1.4	1.4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	6 1.3	nmod
9	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weighs	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 soft	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 soft	cop
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 weighs	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 tofu	case
14	tofu	tofu	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soft	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 protected	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 protected	nsubj:pass
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 protected	aux:pass
18	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 weighs	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 skull	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 skull	det
21	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 protected	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 floats	cc
23	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 protected	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 fluid	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fluid	det
26	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fluid	amod
27	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 floats	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 cushions	nsubj
29	cushions	cushion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fluid	acl:relcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cushions	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 weighs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	the adult brain	1.3 to 1.4			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value
2	is	present	the adult brain not said here			like tofu; soft property	tree rules
3	protect	present · passive	the skull	brain			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4	float	present	the skull not said here		a clear fluid		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fluid=Trajectory
5	cushion	present	a clear fluid	brain			tree rules

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:5.

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, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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