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title: The spinal cord is a thick bundle of nerves running through a tunnel… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: The spinal cord is a thick bundle of nerves running through a tunnel in the bones of the spine, carrying messages between the brain and the body. Who acts: spinal cord, nerves, thick bundle. A sentence of the lesson «The brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# The brain and nerves, sentence 16

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The spinal cord is a thick bundle of nerves running through a tunnel in the bones of the spine, carrying messages between the brain and the body.

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**Who acts:** spinal cord, nerves, thick bundle · **What happens:** be, run, carry · **To what, where:** thick bundle, tunnel, messages

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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 (spinal cord, nerves, thick bundle), 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:16
# text = The spinal cord is a thick bundle of nerves running through a tunnel in the bones of the spine, carrying messages between the brain and the body.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	spinal	spinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
22	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the spinal cord | a thick bundle |  |  |  | of nerves | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | nerves *not said here* |  |  | a tunnel |  | in the bones of the spine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tunnel=Trajectory |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | a thick bundle *not said here* | messages |  |  |  | between the brain and the body | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |

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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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**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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