--- title: Their brains are small, but the nerve cells are packed very tightly,… — Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and par… · tree and pragmatics description: Their brains are small, but the nerve cells are packed very tightly, so a crow's walnut-sized brain holds about as many as some monkey brains. Who acts: brains, sized brain. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, ja…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/) / 1 # Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots, sentence 1 Their brains are small, but the nerve cells are packed very tightly, so a crow's walnut-sized brain holds about as many as some monkey brains. **Who acts:** brains, sized brain · **What happens:** be, pack, size, hold · **To what, where:** nerve cells, many This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» 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 (brains, sized brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson:1 # text = Their brains are small, but the nerve cells are packed very tightly, so a crow's walnut-sized brain holds about as many as some monkey brains. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:cop 11 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 walnut walnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 sized size VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 29 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Their brains | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pack** | present · passive | | the nerve cells | | | | tightly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination | | 3 | **size** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hold** | present | a crow's sized brain | many | | | | as some monkey brains | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots.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 ×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. 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