--- title: Some quick actions skip the thinking part of the brain: if you touch… — The brain, nerves and the five senses · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: quick actions, you, spinal cord. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quick actions, you, 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:7 # text = 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. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 skip skip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 spinal spinal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cord cord NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **skip** | present | some quick actions | the thinking part of the brain | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Agent | | 2 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a hot pan | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pan=Co-Theme | | 3 | **pull away** | present | the spinal cord | your hand | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | present | you | the pain | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/5/) - next →: [The brain, nerves and the five senses, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/34-brain-nerves-senses/)