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title: The real brain is even more amazing: scans show you use virtually al… — Your amazing brain and senses · tree and pragmatics
description: The real brain is even more amazing: scans show you use virtually all of it, different parts busy at different moments, and it keeps building new connections all your life, so practice really changes it. Who acts: real brain, scans, you, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses
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# Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 3

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The real brain is even more amazing: scans show you use virtually all of it, different parts busy at different moments, and it keeps building new connections all your life, so practice really changes it.

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**Who acts:** real brain, scans, you, brain, practice · **What happens:** be, show, use, keep, build, change · **To what, where:** all, new connections, brain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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 (real brain, scans, you, brain), 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:3
# text = The real brain is even more amazing: scans show you use virtually all of it, different parts busy at different moments, and it keeps building new connections all your life, so practice really changes it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	scans	scan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	building	build	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	connections	connection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	really	really	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the real brain |  |  |  |  | amazing *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | scans |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **use** | present | you | all |  |  |  | different parts *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | present | brain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **build** | gerund | brain *not said here* | new connections |  |  |  | your life *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset connection=Product |
| 6 | **change** | present | practice | brain |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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**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:3`.

**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 ×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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