Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 5

The shoulder blade, or scapula, is a flat triangular bone held mostly by muscles, gliding on the back so the arm can move widely.

Who acts: shoulder blade, arm · What happens: be, hold, glide, move · To what, where: flat triangular bone, back

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 (shoulder blade, arm), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blade	det
2	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blade	compound
3	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bone	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scapula	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 scapula	cc
6	scapula	scapula	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blade	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blade	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bone	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bone	det
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bone	amod
11	triangular	triangular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bone	amod
12	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bone	acl
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	13 held	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 muscles	case
16	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 held	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gliding	punct
18	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 held	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 back	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gliding	obl
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 move	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arm	det
24	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 move	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 move	aux
26	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 gliding	advcl
27	widely	widely	ADV	_	26 move	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bone	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shoulder blade or scapula	a flat triangular bone			tree rules
2	hold	participle		a flat triangular bone not said here		by muscles; mostly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by muscle=Location
3	glide	gerund			the back		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
4	move	can	the arm			widely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: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 ×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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