The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 7
The smallest bone, the stirrup in your ear, is smaller than a grain of rice.
Who acts: smallest bone · What happens: be
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 (smallest bone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bone | det |
| 2 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 bone | amod |
| 3 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smaller | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stirrup | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stirrup | det |
| 6 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bone | appos |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stirrup | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bone | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 smaller | cop |
| 12 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 grain | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grain | det |
| 15 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smaller | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rice | case |
| 17 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grain | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 smaller | punct |
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 | the smallest bone | than a grain of rice; small property | tree rules |
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: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): no change. 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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