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title: The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to thousands of others. Who acts: brain, billion nerve cells. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: the brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 6

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The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to thousands of others.

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**Who acts:** brain, billion nerve cells · **What happens:** weigh, have, connect · **To what, where:** 1.4 kilograms, billion nerve cells, each

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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 (brain, billion nerve cells), 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:6
# text = The adult brain weighs about 1.4 kilograms and has about 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to thousands of others.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	weighs	weigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	1.4	1.4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	86	86	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	_
12	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	nerve	nerve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **weigh** | present | the brain | 1.4 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value |
| 2 | **have** | present | the brain *not said here* | billion nerve cells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |
| 3 | **connect** | participle · passive | billion nerve cells *not said here* | each |  |  |  | to thousands of others | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to thousand=Co-Patient |

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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:6`.

**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 ×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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