--- title: Sitting on a nerve squashes it and stops its messages for a while, a… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Sitting on a nerve squashes it and stops its messages for a while, and the tingle of pins and needles is the nerve waking up; moving the leg about helps it wake. Who acts: Sitting, tingle, nerve, half. 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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 (Sitting, tingle, nerve, half), 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:12 # text = Sitting on a nerve squashes it and stops its messages for a while, and the tingle of pins and needles is the nerve waking up; moving the leg about helps it wake. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:nmod 5 squashes squash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tingle tingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 pins pin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 25 waking wake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 about about SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 wake wake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | | | | a nerve | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on nerve=Location | | 2 | **squash** | present | Sitting | half | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **stop** | present | Sitting *not said here* | half's messages | | | while | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality message=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | present | the tingle of pins and needles | the nerve | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wake up** | gerund | the nerve *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **move** | gerund | Sitting *not said here* | the leg | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 7 | **help** | present | Sitting *not said here* | half | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 8 | **wake** | infinitive | half *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **tingle** | | pins and needles | | | | | | nom tingle «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | 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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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