The brain and nerves, sentence 9

A reflex is a quick automatic movement: in the knee-jerk test the signal goes to the spinal cord and straight back to the muscle without waiting for the brain.

Who acts: reflex, signal · What happens: be, go, wait · To what, where: quick automatic movement, jerk test

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 (reflex, signal), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reflex	det
2	reflex	reflex	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 movement	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 movement	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 movement	det
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 movement	amod
6	automatic	automatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 movement	amod
7	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 movement	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 test	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 test	det
11	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jerk	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 knee	punct
13	jerk	jerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 test	compound
14	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 signal	det
16	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	nsubj
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 movement	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 cord	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cord	det
20	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cord	amod
21	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cord	cc
23	straight	straight	ADV	_	24 back	advmod
24	back	back	ADV	_	27 muscle	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 muscle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 muscle	det
27	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cord	conj
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 waiting	mark
29	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 muscle	advcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 brain	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 brain	det
32	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 waiting	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 movement	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a reflex	a quick automatic movement			tree rules
2	go	present	the signal		the jerk test	to the spinal cord and the muscle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cord=Initial_Location
3	wait	gerund	the signal not said here			for the brain	vn exist-47.1 «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:9.

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. 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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