--- title: The brain, nerves and the five senses — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The brain, nerves and the five senses», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The brain is the control centre of the body. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / The brain, nerves and the five senses # The brain, nerves and the five senses Lesson 34 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/0/) — The brain is the control centre of the body. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/1/) — It sits inside the skull and is joined to the spinal cord, which runs down inside the backbone. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/2/) — Nerves are like wires that carry tiny electrical messages: sense nerves bring news from the body to the brain, and other nerves carry orders from the brain to the muscles. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/3/) — We learn about the world through five senses: sight (eyes), hearing (ears), smell (nose), taste (tongue) and touch (skin). - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/4/) — Taste buds for sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami) are found all over the tongue. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/5/) — The old "tongue map", with each taste on its own patch, is a myth. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/7/) — Some quick actions skip the thinking part of the brain: if you touch a hot pan, the spinal cord pulls your hand away before you even feel the pain. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/8/) — This is a reflex. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/9/) — The brain controls the body and is protected by the skull. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/10/) — The spinal cord runs inside the backbone and joins the brain to the nerves of the body. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/11/) — Nerves carry messages as tiny electrical signals. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/12/) — The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/13/) — The tongue can sense sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savoury (umami). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/14/) — Every taste can be sensed by taste buds all over the tongue; the tongue map is a myth. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/15/) — Most of the flavour of food comes from smell. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/16/) — The skin feels touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/17/) — The eye sees light that enters through the pupil; the lens focuses it at the back of the eye. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/19/) — A reflex is a quick, automatic action, such as pulling your hand off something hot. - ← previous: [Digestion: from mouth to intestines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/) - next →: [Teeth and their care](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/35-teeth-and-care/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)