--- title: Fat wraps fast nerves like insulation on a wire, and a stubbed toe h… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Fat wraps fast nerves like insulation on a wire, and a stubbed toe hurts in two waves: a sharp first pain and a slower dull ache, because the two messages travel along different nerves at different speeds. Who acts: Fat, stubbed toe, two 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 (Fat, stubbed toe, two 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:18 # text = Fat wraps fast nerves like insulation on a wire, and a stubbed toe hurts in two waves: a sharp first pain and a slower dull ache, because the two messages travel along different nerves at different speeds. # 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 Fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wraps wrap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 insulation insulation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 stubbed stub VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 amod _ _ 23 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 27 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ache ache NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 35 along along ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 speeds speed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrap** | present | Fat | fast nerves | | | | like insulation on a wire | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nerve=Theme | | 2 | **stub** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hurt** | present | a stubbed toe | | | two waves | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **travel** | present | the two messages | | | different speeds | | along different nerves | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along nerve=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:18`. **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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