--- title: Nerves are the body's wires: messages race along them, the fastest a… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Nerves are the body's wires: messages race along them, the fastest at about 120 metres a second, from your skin to your brain and from your brain to your muscles. Who acts: Nerves, messages. 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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 (Nerves, messages), 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:1 # text = Nerves are the body's wires: messages race along them, the fastest at about 120 metres a second, from your skin to your brain and from your brain to your muscles. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 race race VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 10 along along ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 nmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 120 120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl:unmarked 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Nerves | the body's wires | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **race** | present | messages | the fastest | | your skin to your brain and your brain to your muscles | | along Nerves *= nerve* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along they=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](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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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