--- title: The brain floats in fluid inside the hard skull, and a helmet spread… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: The brain floats in fluid inside the hard skull, and a helmet spreads and softens a blow; after a hard knock to the head you should rest and see a doctor. Who acts: brain, helmet, you. 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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, helmet, you), 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:15 # text = The brain floats in fluid inside the hard skull, and a helmet spreads and softens a blow; after a hard knock to the head you should rest and see a doctor. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 fluid fluid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 inside inside ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 softens soften VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | present | the brain | | | fluid | | inside the hard skull | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in fluid=Source inside skull=Trajectory | | 2 | **spread** | present | a helmet | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **soften** | present | a helmet *not said here* | a blow | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | | 4 | **rest** | should | you | | | | after a hard knock to the head | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a doctor | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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, 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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