The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 11
Nerves carry messages as tiny electrical signals.
Who acts: Nerves · What happens: carry · To what, where: messages
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 (Nerves), 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 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 signals | case |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 signals | amod |
| 6 | electrical | electrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 signals | amod |
| 7 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Nerves | messages | as tiny electrical signals | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:11.
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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