--- title: Brain myths are thrilling: a tongue with neat taste zones, people bo… — Your amazing brain and senses · tree and pragmatics description: Brain myths are thrilling: a tongue with neat taste zones, people born "right-brained" or "not maths people", Mozart making babies brainy, eyeballs popping out if you sneeze with them open, French learned from tapes under your pillow. Who acts: Brain myths, people, Mozart, you. 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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 myths, people, Mozart, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:2 # text = Brain myths are thrilling: a tongue with neat taste zones, people born "right-brained" or "not maths people", Mozart making babies brainy, eyeballs popping out if you sneeze with them open, French learned from tapes under your pillow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 thrilling thrilling ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 14 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:aux 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 brained brain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 parataxis _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 23 maths math NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Mozart Mozart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 29 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 brainy brainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:amod 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 eyeballs eyeball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 33 popping pop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 sneeze sneeze VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 42 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 tapes tape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 46 under under ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 pillow pillow NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Brain myths | | | | | thrilling *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | participle | | people *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **brain** *in a quote* | participle | people | | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | gerund | Mozart | babies | | | | brainy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset baby=Beneficiary eyeball=Product | | 5 | **pop out** | gerund | Mozart *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **sneeze** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | with people; open *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **learn** | past | French | | | tapes | | under your pillow | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tape=Source | 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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:2`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Your amazing brain and senses, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/1/) - next →: [Your amazing brain and senses, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/2-your-amazing-brain-and-senses/)