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title: The brain never switches off: while you sleep it sorts the day's mem… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics
description: The brain never switches off: while you sleep it sorts the day's memories and makes dreams, and every time you practise your times tables the paths between its cells grow stronger. Who acts: brain, you, paths. A sentence of the lesson «The brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
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# The brain and nerves, sentence 4

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The brain never switches off: while you sleep it sorts the day's memories and makes dreams, and every time you practise your times tables the paths between its cells grow stronger.

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**Who acts:** brain, you, paths · **What happens:** not switch off, sleep, sort, make, practise, grow · **To what, where:** memories, dreams, times tables

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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, you, paths), 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:4
# text = The brain never switches off: while you sleep it sorts the day's memories and makes dreams, and every time you practise your times tables the paths between its cells grow stronger.
# 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	2	det	_	_
2	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	switches	switch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sorts	sort	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
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	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	practise	practise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	compound	_	_
27	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
30	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	xcomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **switch off** | present | the brain |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sleep** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sort** | present | brain | the day's memories |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | brain *not said here* | dreams |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dream=Product |
| 5 | **practise** | present | you | your times tables |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | present | the paths between brain's cells |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:4`.

**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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