The brain and nerves, sentence 8

Nerves carry signals between the body and the brain; the fastest signals travel at over 100 metres a second, but some pain signals travel only about 1 or 2 metres a second.

Who acts: Nerves, fastest signals, pain signals · What happens: carry, travel · To what, where: signals, 100 metres, 1 metres

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 (Nerves, fastest signals, pain signals), 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	Nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obj
4	between	between	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signals	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brain	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brain	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 body	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 travel	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 signals	det
12	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 signals	amod
13	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 travel	nsubj
14	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 metres	case
16	over	over	ADV	_	17 100	advmod
17	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 metres	nummod
18	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 travel	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 second	det
20	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 metres	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 travel	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 travel	cc
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 signals	det
24	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 signals	compound
25	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 travel	nsubj
26	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 travel	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 1	advmod
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 1	advmod
29	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 metres	nummod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 2	cc
31	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 1	conj
32	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 travel	obj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 second	det
34	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 metres	nmod:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Nerves	signals		between the body and the brain	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme
2	travel	present	the fastest signals		100 metres a second		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at metre=Trajectory
3	travel	present	some pain signals	1 metres a second			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory

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:8.

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 ×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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