Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 2

Run your hand down a friend's back and you feel a row of bumps: these are the back edges of the vertebrae, the bones of the spine, stacked in a gentle S-curve with soft cushions called discs between them.

Who acts: you, these, soft cushions · What happens: run down, feel, be, stack, call · To what, where: hand, row, back edges, gentle S curve, discs · 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 (you, these, soft cushions), 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	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	1 Run	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 friend	case
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feel	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 feel	nsubj
11	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 row	det
13	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feel	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 bumps	case
15	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 row	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 edges	punct
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 edges	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 edges	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edges	det
20	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 edges	amod
21	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feel	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 vertebrae	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vertebrae	det
24	vertebrae	vertebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 edges	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bones	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bones	det
27	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 vertebrae	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 spine	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spine	det
30	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bones	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stacked	punct
32	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 edges	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	38 curve	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 curve	det
35	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 curve	amod
36	S	s	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 curve	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 S	punct
38	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stacked	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 cushions	case
40	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cushions	amod
41	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 curve	nmod
42	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 cushions	acl
43	discs	disc	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 called	obj
44	between	between	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 discs	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Run	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run down	imperative	you not said here	your hand		a friend's back obl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Trajectory
2	feel	present	you	a row of bumps			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Theme
3	is a	present	these	the back edges		of the vertebrae and the bones of the spine	tree rules
4	stack	participle		the back edges not said here	a gentle S curve with soft cushions		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in curve=Destination
5	call	participle	soft cushions not said here	discs		between discs = disc	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disc=Recipient

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:2.

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 ×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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