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title: During sleep the brain is busy: it sorts and stores the day's memori… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: During sleep the brain is busy: it sorts and stores the day's memories, clears away waste and helps the body grow and repair. Who acts: brain, body. A sentence of the lesson «The brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The brain and nerves, sentence 12

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During sleep the brain is busy: it sorts and stores the day's memories, clears away waste and helps the body grow and repair.

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**Who acts:** brain, body · **What happens:** be, sort, store, clear away, help, grow · **To what, where:** memories, waste, body

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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, body), 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:12
# text = During sleep the brain is busy: it sorts and stores the day's memories, clears away waste and helps the body grow and repair.
# 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): no change
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sorts	sort	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	clears	clear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the brain |  |  |  | during sleep | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sort** | present | brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **store** | present | brain *not said here* | the day's memories |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 4 | **clear away** | present | brain *not said here* | waste |  |  |  | away *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent waste=Source |
| 5 | **help** | present | brain *not said here* | the body |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **grow** | infinitive | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **repair** | infinitive | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |

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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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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