--- title: Your brain weighs about as much as a big bag of sugar, is soft like… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Your brain weighs about as much as a big bag of sugar, is soft like tofu, and runs everything you do, think, feel and remember. Who acts: brain, you. 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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 (brain, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:0 # text = Your brain weighs about as much as a big bag of sugar, is soft like tofu, and runs everything you do, think, feel and remember. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 068-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 tofu tofu NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 21 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 obj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | Your brain | | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Your brain *not said here* | | | | | like tofu; soft *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **run** | present | Your brain *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Trajectory | | 4 | **do** | present | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | Your brain *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **feel** | infinitive | Your brain *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **remember** | infinitive | Your brain *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: 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. 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