Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 3

Twelve pairs of ribs curve round from the spine like a cage, guarding the heart and lungs while still letting the chest swell when you breathe.

Who acts: Twelve pairs, chest, you · What happens: curve, guard, let, swell, breathe · To what, where: spine, heart

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 (Twelve pairs, chest, you), 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	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pairs	nummod
2	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 curve	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ribs	case
4	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pairs	nmod
5	curve	curve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 curve	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 spine	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spine	det
9	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curve	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 cage	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cage	det
12	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 curve	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guarding	punct
14	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 curve	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 guarding	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lungs	cc
18	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heart	conj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 letting	mark
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 letting	advmod
21	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 guarding	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 chest	det
23	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swell	nsubj
24	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 letting	xcomp
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 breathe	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 breathe	nsubj
27	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 swell	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 curve	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve	present	Twelve pairs of ribs		the spine		like a cage; round property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material
2	guard	gerund	Twelve pairs of ribs not said here	the heart and lungs				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Beneficiary
3	let	gerund	Twelve pairs of ribs not said here			still		tree rules
4	swell	infinitive	the chest					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	breathe	present	you					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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:3.

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, R7-rel-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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