Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 9

The arch of the foot works like a spring; toddlers have flat feet and grow arches later, and some people keep flat feet with no problems.

Who acts: arch, toddlers, people · What happens: work, have, grow, keep · To what, where: flat feet, arches

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» 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 (arch, toddlers, people), 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	2 arch	det
2	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 foot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 foot	det
5	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arch	nmod
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 spring	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spring	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 works	parataxis
13	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feet	amod
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grow	cc
16	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 have	conj
17	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	obj
18	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 grow	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 keep	cc
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keep	nsubj
23	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 works	conj
24	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feet	amod
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keep	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 problems	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 problems	det
28	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keep	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the arch of the foot		spring		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	toddlers	flat feet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	grow	present	toddlers not said here	arches		late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arch=Theme
4	keep	present	some people	flat feet		with no problems	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby.lesson:9.

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): R8-pos-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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