--- title: Memories get stronger when you repeat them, sleep helps fix them as… — The human body deeper: the brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Memories get stronger when you repeat them, sleep helps fix them as the brain replays the day, and spacing practice over several days works better than cramming. Who acts: Memories, you, sleep, brain. 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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 (Memories, you, sleep, brain), 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:9 # text = Memories get stronger when you repeat them, sleep helps fix them as the brain replays the day, and spacing practice over several days works better than cramming. # 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 ×1 1 Memories memory NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 repeat repeat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 11 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 replays replay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 spacing space VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 nsubj _ _ 22 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 27 better good ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 28 than than SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 cramming cram VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **get** | present | Memories | | | | | strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **repeat** | present | you | Memories *= memory* | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 3 | **help** | present | sleep | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **fix** | infinitive | sleep *not said here* | Memories *= memory* | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **replay** | present | the brain | | | | day | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **space** | gerund | | practice | | | over several days | | tree rules | | 7 | **work** | present | | | | | | good *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **cram** | gerund | | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/8/) - next →: [The human body deeper: the brain and n…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/260-human-body-deeper-the-brain-and-nerves/)