Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 10

The spine has an S-shaped curve that works like a spring and balances the head over the hips, and soft discs between the vertebrae cushion each step.

Who acts: spine, S shaped curve, soft discs · What happens: have, shape, work, balance, cushion · To what, where: S shaped curve, head, hips, step

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 (spine, S shaped curve, soft discs), 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 spine	det
2	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 curve	det
5	S	S	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 curve	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 S	punct
7	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 curve	amod
8	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 works	nsubj
10	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 curve	acl:relcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 spring	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 spring	det
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 works	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 balances	cc
15	balances	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 works	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 head	det
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 balances	obj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 hips	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hips	det
20	hips	hip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 balances	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 discs	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cushion	cc
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 discs	amod
24	discs	disc	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cushion	nsubj
25	between	between	ADP	_	27 vertebrae	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 vertebrae	det
27	vertebrae	vertebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 discs	nmod
28	cushion	cushion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 step	det
30	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cushion	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	the spine	a S shaped curve			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=Patient
2	shape	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	work	present	a S shaped curve			spring	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	balance	present	a S shaped curve not said here	the head	the hips		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme over hip=Location
5	cushion	present	soft discs between the vertebrae	each step			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:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.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): R8-pos-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.

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