--- title: The brain has about 86 billion nerve cells; it is only about 2 perce… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: The brain has about 86 billion nerve cells; it is only about 2 percent of the body's weight but uses about a fifth of its energy. Who acts: brain. 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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), 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:6 # text = The brain has about 86 billion nerve cells; it is only about 2 percent of the body's weight but uses about a fifth of its energy. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 86 86 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 compound _ _ 6 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 13 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | the brain | billion nerve cells | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | brain | 2 percent | | | | of the body's weight | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | present | brain *not said here* | a fifth of brain's energy | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Patient | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/5/) - next →: [The brain and nerves, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/)