--- title: You cannot tickle yourself because your brain predicts the feeling o… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: You cannot tickle yourself because your brain predicts the feeling of your own fingers and makes it weaker; tickling needs surprise. Who acts: You, brain, tickling. 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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 (You, brain, tickling), 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:14 # text = You cannot tickle yourself because your brain predicts the feeling of your own fingers and makes it weaker; tickling needs surprise. # 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): no change 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 tickle tickle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 predicts predict VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 weaker weak ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 tickling tickle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ _ 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tickle** | can | You | yourself | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Experiencer | | 2 | **predict** | present | your brain | the feeling of your own fingers | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feeling=Topic | | 3 | **make** | present | your brain *not said here* | brain | | | | weak *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **tickle** | gerund | | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **need** | present | tickling | surprise | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surprise=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. 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