The brain and nerves, sentence 6

The brain has about 86 billion nerve cells; it is only about 2 percent of the body's weight but uses about a fifth of its energy.

Who acts: brain · What happens: have, be, use · To what, where: billion nerve cells, 2 percent, fifth

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), 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	about	about	ADV	_	6 billion	advmod
5	86	86	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 billion	compound
6	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cells	nummod
7	nerve	nerve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 percent	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 percent	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 percent	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 2	advmod
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 2	advmod
14	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 percent	nummod
15	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 weight	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 body	det
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 weight	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 body	case
20	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 percent	nmod
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 uses	cc
22	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 percent	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 fifth	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fifth	det
25	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 uses	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 energy	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 energy	nmod:poss
28	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fifth	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the brain	billion nerve cells		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	is a	present	brain	2 percent	of the body's weight	tree rules
3	use	present	brain not said here	a fifth of brain's energy		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Patient

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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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