--- title: The adult brain weighs about 1.3 to 1.4 kg and is soft like tofu; it… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: The adult brain weighs about 1.3 to 1.4 kg and is soft like tofu; it is protected by the skull and floats in a clear fluid that cushions it. Who acts: adult brain, skull, clear fluid. 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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 (adult brain, skull, clear fluid), 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:5 # text = The adult brain weighs about 1.3 to 1.4 kg and is soft like tofu; it is protected by the skull and floats in a clear fluid that cushions it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound 4 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 1.3 1.3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 4 nmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1.4 1.4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 6 nmod _ _ 9 kg kg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 tofu tofu NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 protected protect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 23 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 fluid fluid NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 cushions cushion VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | the adult brain | 1.3 to 1.4 | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value | | 2 | **is** | present | the adult brain *not said here* | | | | | like tofu; soft *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **protect** | present · passive | the skull | brain | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | | 4 | **float** | present | the skull *not said here* | | | a clear fluid | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fluid=Trajectory | | 5 | **cushion** | present | a clear fluid | brain | | | | | tree rules | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/4/) - next →: [The brain and nerves, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/)