--- title: The brain is soft and sits inside the hard skull; after a hard knock… — Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and burns · tree and pragmatics description: The brain is soft and sits inside the hard skull; after a hard knock it can be hurt even if you feel fine at first, so an adult needs to know and watch you. Who acts: brain, you, adult. 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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, you, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.lesson:1 # text = The brain is soft and sits inside the hard skull; after a hard knock it can be hurt even if you feel fine at first, so an adult needs to know and watch you. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 inside inside ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 12 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 24 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **is** | present | the brain | | | | | soft *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | present | the brain *not said here* | | | the hard skull | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside skull=Location | | 3 | **hurt** | can · passive | | brain | | | after a hard knock | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **need** | present | a adult | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a adult *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **watch** | infinitive | a adult *not said here* | you | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | 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:everyday:084-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns.lesson:1`. **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, 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: [Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and bu…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/84-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns/0/) - next →: [Bruises, head bumps, nosebleeds and bu…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/84-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/84-bruises-bumps-nosebleeds-and-burns/)