Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 6

Brain scans show people use virtually all of their brain, though not every part at the same moment; damage to almost any area causes problems.

Who acts: Brain scans, people, damage · What happens: show, use, cause · To what, where: all, problems · 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 scans, people, damage), 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 scans	compound
2	scans	scan	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 show	ccomp
6	virtually	virtually	ADV	_	7 all	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 use	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 brain	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brain	nmod:poss
10	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 part	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 part	case
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 part	advmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 part	det
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 moment	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 moment	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 moment	amod
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 damage	punct
21	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 causes	nsubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 area	case
23	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 any	advmod
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 area	det
25	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 damage	nmod
26	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 show	parataxis
27	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 causes	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	Brain scans			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	present	people	all	though every part at the same moment	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient
3	cause	present	damage to any area	problems		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.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): no change. 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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