The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 8
The funny bone is not a bone but a nerve near the elbow, close to the skin, and bumping it sends a zinging feeling down the arm; the name may be a joke on the arm bone called the humerus.
Who acts: funny bone, bumping, name, arm bone · What happens: not be, be, bump, send, zing, call · To what, where: bone, skin, zinging feeling, joke, arm bone, humerus · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (funny bone, bumping, name, arm 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 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bone | amod |
| 3 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bone | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bone | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bone | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bone | det |
| 7 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 nerve | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 nerve | det |
| 10 | nerve | nerve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bone | conj |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 elbow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elbow | det |
| 13 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nerve | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 close | punct |
| 15 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bone | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 skin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skin | det |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sends | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sends | cc |
| 21 | bumping | bump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sends | csubj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bumping | obj |
| 23 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bone | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 feeling | det |
| 25 | zinging | zing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 feeling | amod |
| 26 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sends | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 arm | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 arm | det |
| 29 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feeling | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 joke | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 name | det |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 joke | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 joke | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 joke | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 joke | det |
| 36 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bone | parataxis |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 bone | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bone | det |
| 39 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bone | compound |
| 40 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 joke | nmod |
| 41 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 bone | acl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 humerus | det |
| 43 | humerus | humerus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 called | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bone | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the funny bone | a bone but a nerve near the elbow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the funny bone not said here | to the skin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bump | gerund | skin | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | send | present | bumping | a zinging feeling | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme | ||||
| 5 | zing | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is a | may | the name | a joke | the arm bone | tree rules | |||
| 7 | call | participle | the arm bone not said here | the humerus | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent humerus=Recipient |
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:8.
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): R6-punct-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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin/8/