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title: Brain scans show that we use all parts of the brain, though not all… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: Brain scans show that we use all parts of the brain, though not all at once, so the «10 percent» idea is a myth. Who acts: Brain scans, we, percent idea. 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 and
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# The human body deeper: the brain and nerves, sentence 8

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Brain scans show that we use all parts of the brain, though not all at once, so the «10 percent» idea is a myth.

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**Who acts:** Brain scans, we, percent idea · **What happens:** show, use, be · **To what, where:** parts, myth

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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 scans, we, percent idea), 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:8
# text = Brain scans show that we use all parts of the brain, though not all at once, so the «10 percent» idea is a myth.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	scans	scan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
22	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
25	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | present | Brain scans |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | present | we | all parts of the brain |  |  |  | all *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the percent idea | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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