Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 2
Brain myths are thrilling: a tongue with neat taste zones, people born "right-brained" or "not maths people", Mozart making babies brainy, eyeballs popping out if you sneeze with them open, French learned from tapes under your pillow.
Who acts: Brain myths, people, Mozart, you, French · What happens: be, bear, brain, make, pop out, sneeze · To what, where: people, babies, tapes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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 myths, people, Mozart, you), 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 | Brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 myths | compound |
| 2 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thrilling | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrilling | cop |
| 4 | thrilling | thrilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 tongue | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tongue | det |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrilling | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 zones | case |
| 9 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 zones | amod |
| 10 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 zones | compound |
| 11 | zones | zone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tongue | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 people | punct |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brained | nsubj |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 people | acl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 brained | punct |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brained | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 right | punct |
| 18 | brained | brain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tongue | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 brained | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 people | cc |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 people | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 people | advmod |
| 23 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 people | compound |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brained | conj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 people | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 making | punct |
| 27 | Mozart | Mozart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 making | nsubj |
| 28 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 brained | conj |
| 29 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 making | obj |
| 30 | brainy | brainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 making | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brainy | punct |
| 32 | eyeballs | eyeball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 making | obj |
| 33 | popping | pop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 making | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 popping | compound:prt |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 sneeze | mark |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 sneeze | nsubj |
| 37 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 popping | advcl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sneeze | obl |
| 40 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sneeze | xcomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tongue | punct |
| 42 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 learned | nsubj |
| 43 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrilling | parataxis |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 tapes | case |
| 45 | tapes | tape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 learned | obl |
| 46 | under | under | ADP | _ | 48 pillow | case |
| 47 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 48 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 learned | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrilling | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Brain myths | thrilling property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | brain in a quote | participle | people | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | Mozart | babies | brainy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset baby=Beneficiary eyeball=Product | |||
| 5 | pop out | gerund | Mozart not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | sneeze a condition, not said to happen | present | you | with people; open property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | learn | past | French | tapes | under your pillow | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tape=Source |
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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:2.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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