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title: Brain scans show people use virtually all of their brain, though not… — Your amazing brain and senses · tree and pragmatics
description: Brain scans show people use virtually all of their brain, though not every part at the same moment; damage to almost any area causes problems. Who acts: Brain scans, people, damage. A sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 6

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Brain scans show people use virtually all of their brain, though not every part at the same moment; damage to almost any area causes problems.

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**Who acts:** Brain scans, people, damage · **What happens:** show, use, cause · **To what, where:** all, problems · **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 (Brain scans, people, damage), 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:6
# text = Brain scans show people use virtually all of their brain, though not every part at the same moment; damage to almost any area causes problems.
# 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): no change
1	Brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	scans	scan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | present | Brain scans |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | present | people | all |  |  |  | though every part at the same moment | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |
| 3 | **cause** | present | damage to any area | problems |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition problem=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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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