--- title: Brains change as you learn, which is called plasticity, especially f… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Brains change as you learn, which is called plasticity, especially fast in childhood; London taxi drivers who learned all the streets were found to have a bigger memory area. Who acts: Brains, you, London taxi drivers. 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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 (Brains, you, London taxi drivers), 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:16 # text = Brains change as you learn, which is called plasticity, especially fast in childhood; London taxi drivers who learned all the streets were found to have a bigger memory area. # 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 1 Brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 10 plasticity plasticity NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 especially especially ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 taxi taxi NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 drivers driver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod 31 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **change** | present | Brains | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **learn** | present | you | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | plasticity | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **learn** | past | London taxi drivers | all streets | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Topic | | 5 | **find** | past · passive | | London taxi drivers | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | London taxi drivers *not said here* | a bigger memory area | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent area=Patient | 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:16`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The human body deeper: the brain and n…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/15/) - next →: [The human body deeper: the brain and n…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/)