The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 1
It sits inside the skull and is joined to the spinal cord, which runs down inside the backbone.
Who acts: brain, spinal cord · What happens: sit, join, run down · To what, where: skull, backbone
This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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, spinal cord), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 skull | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skull | det |
| 5 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 joined | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 joined | aux:pass |
| 8 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sits | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cord | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cord | det |
| 11 | spinal | spinal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cord | amod |
| 12 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joined | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 runs | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 runs | nsubj |
| 15 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cord | acl:relcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 runs | advmod |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 backbone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 backbone | det |
| 19 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 runs | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | brain | the skull | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside skull=Location | ||||
| 2 | join | present · passive | brain not said here | to the spinal cord | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: to cord=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | run down | present | the spinal cord | the backbone | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside backbone=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:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:1.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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