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title: It sits inside the skull and is joined to the spinal cord, which run… — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics
description: It sits inside the skull and is joined to the spinal cord, which runs down inside the backbone. Who acts: brain, spinal cord. A sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 1

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It sits inside the skull and is joined to the spinal cord, which runs down inside the backbone.

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**Who acts:** brain, spinal cord · **What happens:** sit, join, run down · **To what, where:** skull, backbone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the world 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, spinal cord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:1
# text = It sits inside the skull and is joined to the spinal cord, which runs down inside the backbone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 034-brain-nerves-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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	spinal	spinal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
17	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	backbone	backbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **sit** | present | brain |  |  | the skull |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside skull=Location |
| 2 | **join** | present · passive | brain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the spinal cord | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: to cord=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **run down** | present | the spinal cord |  |  | the backbone |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside backbone=Trajectory |

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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:world:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:1`.

**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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