--- title: Nerves carry signals between the body and the brain; the fastest sig… — The brain and nerves · tree and pragmatics description: Nerves carry signals between the body and the brain; the fastest signals travel at over 100 metres a second, but some pain signals travel only about 1 or 2 metres a second. Who acts: Nerves, fastest signals, pain signals. A sentence of the lesson «The brain and nerves» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The brain and nerves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/) / 8 # The brain and nerves, sentence 8 Nerves carry signals between the body and the brain; the fastest signals travel at over 100 metres a second, but some pain signals travel only about 1 or 2 metres a second. **Who acts:** Nerves, fastest signals, pain signals · **What happens:** carry, travel · **To what, where:** signals, 100 metres, 1 metres 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 (Nerves, fastest signals, pain signals), 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:8 # text = Nerves carry signals between the body and the brain; the fastest signals travel at over 100 metres a second, but some pain signals travel only about 1 or 2 metres a second. # 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 1 Nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 between between ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 15 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 over over ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 24 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 travel travel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 conj _ _ 32 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obl 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:unmarked _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Nerves | signals | | | | between the body and the brain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | present | the fastest signals | | | 100 metres a second | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at metre=Trajectory | | 3 | **travel** | present | some pain signals | 1 metres a second | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory | 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:8`. **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. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/6/) - next →: [The brain and nerves, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/68-the-brain-and-nerves/)