Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 0

The skull looks like one big bone, but it is 22 bones fitted together with zigzag seams called sutures, as tight as the pieces of a hard jigsaw.

Who acts: skull, zigzag seams · What happens: look, be, fit together, call · To what, where: 22 bones, sutures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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 (skull, zigzag seams), 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	2 skull	det
2	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 bone	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 bone	nummod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bone	amod
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bones	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 bones	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bones	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bones	cop
12	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 bones	nummod
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looks	conj
14	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bones	acl
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 fitted	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 seams	case
17	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seams	compound
18	seams	seam	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fitted	obl
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 seams	acl
20	sutures	suture	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tight	punct
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 tight	advmod
23	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looks	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 pieces	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pieces	det
26	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tight	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 jigsaw	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 jigsaw	det
29	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 jigsaw	amod
30	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pieces	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	the skull		like one big bone	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	skull	22 bones		tree rules
3	fit together	participle		22 bones not said here	with zigzag seams; together property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	call	participle	zigzag seams not said here	sutures		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.lesson:0.

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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