---
title: It talks to the body through nerves, long thin wires of living cells… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: It talks to the body through nerves, long thin wires of living cells; the thick main cable, the spinal cord, runs down inside the bones of your back. Who acts: brain, thick main cable. A sentence of the lesson «The brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The brain and nerves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/) / 1

# The brain and nerves, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It talks to the body through nerves, long thin wires of living cells; the thick main cable, the spinal cord, runs down inside the bones of your back.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** brain, thick main cable · **What happens:** talk, live, run down · **To what, where:** nerves, bones

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «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, thick main cable), 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:1
# text = It talks to the body through nerves, long thin wires of living cells; the thick main cable, the spinal cord, runs down inside the bones of your back.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talks	talk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	spinal	spinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod
27	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | brain |  |  | nerves |  | to the body | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to body=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run down** | present | the thick main cable |  |  | the bones of your back |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside bone=Trajectory |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:1`.

**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. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The brain and nerves, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/0/)
- next →: [The brain and nerves, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/)