The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 10

Muscles can only pull, not push, so they work in pairs, like the biceps that bends the arm and the triceps that straightens it.

Who acts: Muscles, biceps, triceps · What happens: pull, not push, work, bend, straighten · To what, where: arm

This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin» of the biology 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 (Muscles, biceps, triceps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 pull	advmod
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 push	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 push	advmod
7	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pull	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 work	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 work	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 work	nsubj
11	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 pairs	case
13	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 work	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 biceps	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 biceps	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 biceps	det
17	biceps	biceps	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pairs	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 bends	nsubj
19	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 biceps	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 arm	det
21	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bends	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 triceps	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 triceps	det
24	triceps	triceps	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 biceps	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 straightens	nsubj
26	straightens	straighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 triceps	acl:relcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 straightens	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pull	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	can	Muscles			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not push	infinitive	Muscles not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	work	present	Muscles = muscle		in pairs like the biceps and the triceps	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pair=Theme
4	bend	present	the biceps and the triceps	the arm		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material
5	straighten	present	the triceps	arm		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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, 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:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:10.

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 ×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.

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