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title: Pain sensors send fast signals to the spinal cord, which makes the h… — Senses: nose, tongue and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: Pain sensors send fast signals to the spinal cord, which makes the hand jerk away from a hot radiator even before the brain feels the pain. Who acts: Pain sensors, spinal cord, hand, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Senses: nose, tongue and skin, sentence 16

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Pain sensors send fast signals to the spinal cord, which makes the hand jerk away from a hot radiator even before the brain feels the pain.

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**Who acts:** Pain sensors, spinal cord, hand, brain · **What happens:** send, make, jerk, feel · **To what, where:** fast signals, spinal cord, hand, pain

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses: nose, tongue and skin» 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 (Pain sensors, spinal cord, hand, brain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.lesson:16
# text = Pain sensors send fast signals to the spinal cord, which makes the hand jerk away from a hot radiator even before the brain feels the pain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 070-senses-nose-tongue-and-skin.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	spinal	spinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	jerk	jerk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	radiator	radiator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | Pain sensors | fast signals |  | the spinal cord |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent signal=Theme to cord=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present | the spinal cord | hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **jerk** | infinitive | hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | present | the brain | the pain |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=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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**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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