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title: In cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Tom gets bonked on the head, sees st… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: In cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Tom gets bonked on the head, sees stars and birds spinning round, and is fine a second later; a real hard knock can shake the brain, which is called concussion, and needs rest and a doctor. Who acts: stars, real hard knock. A sentence of the lesson «The human body dee
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# The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 4

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In cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Tom gets bonked on the head, sees stars and birds spinning round, and is fine a second later; a real hard knock can shake the brain, which is called concussion, and needs rest and a doctor.

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**Who acts:** stars, real hard knock · **What happens:** bonk, see, spin round, be, shake, call · **To what, where:** Tom, cartoons, stars, brain, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, real hard knock), 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:4
# text = In cartoons like Tom and Jerry, Tom gets bonked on the head, sees stars and birds spinning round, and is fine a second later; a real hard knock can shake the brain, which is called concussion, and needs rest and 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	bonked	bonk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl
20	round	round	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	concussion	concussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	xcomp	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
45	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bonk** | present · passive |  | Tom |  | cartoons like Tom and Jerry |  | on the head | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in cartoon=Location |
| 2 | **see** | present |  | stars and birds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spin round** | gerund | stars and birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine, late *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shake** | can | a real hard knock | the brain |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 6 | **call** | present · passive |  | the brain |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **need** | present | a real hard knock *not said here* | rest and a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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 ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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