Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 12

People have 12 pairs of ribs, 24 in all, and men and women have the same number; the idea that men have one rib fewer is a myth.

Who acts: People, men, idea · What happens: have, be · To what, where: 12 pairs, same number, one rib, myth

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 (People, men, idea), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 pairs	nummod
4	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 ribs	case
6	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pairs	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 24	punct
8	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 pairs	appos
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 24	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 women	cc
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 men	conj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 number	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 number	amod
19	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 idea	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 idea	det
22	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 myth	nsubj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 idea	acl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 rib	nummod
27	rib	rib	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 rib	amod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 myth	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 myth	det
31	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	People	12 pairs of ribs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
2	have	present	men and women	the same number	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
3	have	present	men	one rib	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Patient
4	is a	present	the idea	a myth	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:12.

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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