Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 7

Muscles can only pull, never push, so they work in pairs: the biceps bends the elbow and the triceps straightens it.

Who acts: Muscles, biceps, triceps · What happens: pull, not push, work, bend, straighten · To what, where: elbow, body

This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» 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 (Muscles, biceps, triceps), 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	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 pull	advmod
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 push	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 push	advmod
7	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pull	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 work	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 work	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 work	nsubj
11	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 pairs	case
13	pairs	pair	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 work	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 biceps	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 biceps	det
16	biceps	biceps	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bends	nsubj
17	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 work	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 elbow	det
19	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bends	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 straightens	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 triceps	det
22	triceps	triceps	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 straightens	nsubj
23	straightens	straighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bends	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 straightens	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pull	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull	can	Muscles			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not push	infinitive	Muscles not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	work	present	muscles = muscle		in pairs	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pair=Theme
4	bend	present	the biceps	the elbow		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent elbow=Material
5	straighten	present	the triceps	body		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:360-muscles-and-joints-by-name-biceps-triceps-knees-elbows-and-the-busiest-muscles.lesson:7.

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): 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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