Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 1

Swing your arm in a full circle: only the shoulder can do that, because it is a ball sitting in a shallow socket, free to turn almost any way, held there mostly by muscles.

Who acts: you, shoulder, ball · What happens: swing, do, be, sit, turn, hold · To what, where: arm, full circle, ball, shallow socket, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» 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, shoulder, ball), 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	Swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arm	nmod:poss
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swing	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 circle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 circle	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 circle	amod
7	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swing	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 shoulder	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoulder	det
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 circle	acl:relcl
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 do	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ball	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 ball	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ball	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ball	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ball	det
20	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	advcl
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 ball	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 socket	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 socket	det
24	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 socket	amod
25	socket	socket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 free	punct
27	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 socket	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 turn	mark
29	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 free	xcomp
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 turn	advmod
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turn	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Swing	punct
34	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ball	acl
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 held	advmod
36	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	38 muscles	advmod
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 muscles	case
38	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 held	obl:agent
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Swing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swing	imperative	you not said here	your arm	a full circle		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme in circle=Location
2	do	can	the shoulder	a full circle			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	is a	present	shoulder	a ball			tree rules
4	sit	gerund	a ball not said here		a shallow socket		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in socket=Location
5	turn	to-infinitive	a ball not said here	any way		almost property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
6	hold	participle		a ball not said here	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands.lesson:1.

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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