--- title: Your brain is a soft, wrinkly organ about 1.4 kilograms in an adult,… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Your brain is a soft, wrinkly organ about 1.4 kilograms in an adult, made of about 86 billion nerve cells, each linked to thousands of others; together they make more connections than there are stars in our galaxy. Who acts: brain, billion nerve cells, others, stars. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brain, billion nerve cells, others, stars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:0 # text = Your brain is a soft, wrinkly organ about 1.4 kilograms in an adult, made of about 86 billion nerve cells, each linked to thousands of others; together they make more connections than there are stars in our galaxy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 wrinkly wrinkly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 1.4 1.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 11 nummod _ _ 11 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod:unmarked 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 86 86 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 20 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot 25 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 together together ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 34 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 amod _ _ 35 connections connection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 than than SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 38 expl _ _ 38 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 a** | present | Your brain | a soft wrinkly organ | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a soft wrinkly organ *not said here* | | | | of billion nerve cells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **link** | participle · passive | billion nerve cells *not said here* | each | | | | to thousands of others | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to thousand=Co-Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | others *= other* | more connections | | | | together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset connection=Product | | 5 | **does** | present | stars in our galaxy | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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