--- title: Nerves are like wires that carry tiny electrical messages: sense ner… — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Nerves, wires, sense nerves, other nerves. A sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» of the wor --- [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/2/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/) / 2 # The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 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. **Who acts:** Nerves, wires, sense nerves, other nerves · **What happens:** be, carry, bring · **To what, where:** tiny electrical messages, news, body, orders, brain 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 (Nerves, wires, sense nerves, other nerves), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 electrical electrical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 11 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 26 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Nerves | | | | | like wires | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | present | wires | tiny electrical messages | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 3 | **bring** | present | sense nerves | news | | the body | | to the brain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme from body=Initial\_Location to brain=Destination | | 4 | **carry** | present | other nerves | orders | | the brain | | to the muscles | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent order=Theme from brain=Initial\_Location to muscle=Destination | 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. **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:2`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The brain, nerves and the five senses, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/1/) - next →: [The brain, nerves and the five senses, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/)