Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 5

In a baby the sutures are still open, with soft spots between the bones, so the head can squeeze through at birth and the brain can grow; they close slowly into adulthood.

Who acts: sutures, head, brain · What happens: be, squeeze, grow, close · To what, where: baby, birth, adulthood

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 (sutures, head, brain), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 baby	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 baby	det
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sutures	det
5	sutures	suture	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 open	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 open	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 open	advmod
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spots	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 spots	case
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spots	amod
12	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 open	obl
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 bones	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bones	det
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 spots	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 squeeze	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 squeeze	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 squeeze	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 squeeze	aux
21	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 open	conj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 birth	case
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 birth	case
24	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 squeeze	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grow	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 brain	det
27	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grow	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 grow	aux
29	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 squeeze	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 close	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 close	nsubj
32	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 open	conj
33	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	32 close	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	35 adulthood	case
35	adulthood	adulthood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 close	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sutures	a baby	still	with soft spots between the bones; open property	tree rules
2	squeeze	can	the head	birth			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through birth=Trajectory
3	grow	can	the brain				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	close	present	sutures = suture	adulthood		slowly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into adulthood=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:5.

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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