--- title: Brain freeze happens when very cold food chills the roof of the mout… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Brain freeze happens when very cold food chills the roof of the mouth quickly; blood vessels there change size and nerves send a pain signal felt in the forehead; slowing down and warming the roof of the mouth with your tongue makes it pass soon. 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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 freeze, cold food, blood vessels, nerves), 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:15 # text = Brain freeze happens when very cold food chills the roof of the mouth quickly; blood vessels there change size and nerves send a pain signal felt in the forehead; slowing down and warming the roof of the mouth with your tongue makes it pass soon. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 freeze freeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 chills chill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 felt feel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 slowing slow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:nsubj 33 down down ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 warming warm VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 44 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 46 advmod _ _ 48 . . 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 | **happen** | present | Brain freeze | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **chill** | present | cold food | the roof of the mouth | | | | quickly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus roof=Experiencer | | 3 | **change** | present | blood vessels | size | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient | | 4 | **send** | present | nerves | a pain signal | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | participle | | a pain signal *not said here* | | | | in the forehead | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in forehead=Attribute | | 6 | **slow down** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **warm** | gerund | | the roof of the mouth | | | | with your tongue | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent roof=Patient with tongue=Instrument | | 8 | **make** | present | slowing | roof | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **pass** | infinitive | roof *not said here* | | | | | soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:15`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/14/) - next →: [The brain and nerves, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/)