Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 13

Ribs protect the heart and lungs, and the lowest two pairs are floating ribs, not joined at the front, which leaves room to breathe and bend.

Who acts: Ribs, lowest two pairs, front · What happens: protect, float, not join, leave, breathe, bend · To what, where: heart, ribs, front, room

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 (Ribs, lowest two pairs, front), 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	Ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protect	nsubj
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heart	det
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lungs	cc
6	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heart	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 floating	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 floating	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pairs	det
10	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 pairs	amod
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pairs	nummod
12	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 floating	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 floating	aux
14	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 protect	conj
15	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 floating	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 joined	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 joined	advmod
18	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ribs	acl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 front	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 front	det
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 joined	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaves	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 leaves	nsubj
24	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 front	acl:relcl
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaves	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 breathe	mark
27	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 room	acl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bend	cc
29	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 breathe	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 protect	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	protect	present	Ribs	the heart and lungs		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Beneficiary
2	float	present · progressive	the lowest two pairs	ribs		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Agent
3	not join	participle		ribs not said here	the front	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	leave	present	the front	room		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
5	breathe	to-infinitive	the front not said here	room not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bend	infinitive	the front not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «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:13.

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): R5-strong ×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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