The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 8
An adult has 206 bones, while a baby has about 300 that join as it grows; the smallest bone is in the ear and the biggest is the thigh bone.
Who acts: adult, baby, smallest bone, biggest · What happens: have, join, grow, be · To what, where: 206 bones, 300, ear, thigh bone
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (adult, baby, smallest bone, biggest), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adult | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 206 | 206 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 bones | nummod |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | advcl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 300 | advmod |
| 12 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 join | nsubj |
| 14 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 300 | acl:relcl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 grows | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grows | nsubj |
| 17 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 join | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 grows | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bone | det |
| 20 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 bone | amod |
| 21 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ear | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ear | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ear | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ear | det |
| 25 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bone | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 biggest | det |
| 28 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 bone | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 bone | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bone | det |
| 31 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bone | compound |
| 32 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ear | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a adult | 206 bones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a baby | 300 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Patient | ||||
| 3 | join | present | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | grow | present | baby | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the smallest bone | the ear and the thigh bone | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the biggest | the thigh bone | 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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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): 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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