--- title: Pins and needles come when pressing on a nerve stops it sending sign… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Pins and needles come when pressing on a nerve stops it sending signals properly; when the pressure is gone the nerve wakes up with lots of tingly signals. Who acts: Pins, pressing, pressure, nerve. 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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 (Pins, pressing, pressure, nerve), 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:18 # text = Pins and needles come when pressing on a nerve stops it sending signals properly; when the pressure is gone the nerve wakes up with lots of tingly signals. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pins pin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 6 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 sending send VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 13 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 properly properly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:aux:pass 20 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 wakes wake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 tingly tingly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Pins and needles | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **press** | gerund | | | | | | on a nerve | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on nerve=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | present | pressing | octopus | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **send** | gerund | pressing *not said here* | signals | | | | properly *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | the pressure | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **wake up** | present | the nerve | | | | | with lots of tingly signals | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lot=Instrument | 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:18`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/17/) - next →: [Senses: eyes and ears, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/69-senses-eyes-and-ears/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/)