--- title: Each time you practise something, the connections between the nerve… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Each time you practise something, the connections between the nerve cells involved get stronger, so the memory gets easier to find. Who acts: you, connections, memory. 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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 (you, connections, memory), 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:14 # text = Each time you practise something, the connections between the nerve cells involved get stronger, so the memory gets easier to find. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 practise practise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 connections connection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 involved involve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 15 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **practise** | present | you | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **involve** | participle | | the nerve cells *not said here* | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | the connections between the nerve cells | | | | | strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **get** | present | the memory | | | | time | easy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | the memory *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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:068-the-brain-and-nerves.lesson:14`. **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): R7-rel-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 brain and nerves, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/13/) - next →: [The brain and nerves, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/)