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title: Nerves carry messages as tiny electric pulses, and doctors measure t… — Electricity and safety · tree and pragmatics
description: Nerves carry messages as tiny electric pulses, and doctors measure the heart's signals with stickers on the chest. Who acts: Nerves, doctors, heart. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Electricity and safety, sentence 15

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Nerves carry messages as tiny electric pulses, and doctors measure the heart's signals with stickers on the chest.

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**Who acts:** Nerves, doctors, heart · **What happens:** carry, measure, signal · **To what, where:** messages, signals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity and safety» of the physics 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 (Nerves, doctors, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:15
# text = Nerves carry messages as tiny electric pulses, and doctors measure the heart's signals with stickers on the chest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 028-electricity-and-safety.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 ×2
1	Nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pulses	pulse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	measure	measure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stickers	sticker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **carry** | present | Nerves | messages |  |  |  | as tiny electric pulses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | present | doctors | the heart's signals |  |  |  | with stickers on the chest | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme signal=Value |
| 3 | **signal** |  | the heart |  |  |  |  |  | nom signal «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:physics:028-electricity-and-safety.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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/).

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