The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 11

The longest bone in the body is the thigh bone, or femur, about a quarter of your height, and the smallest bone is in your ear and is smaller than a grain of rice.

Who acts: longest bone, smallest bone · What happens: be · To what, where: thigh bone, ear

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 (longest bone, smallest bone), 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 bone	det
2	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 bone	amod
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bone	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bone	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bone	det
9	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bone	compound
10	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 femur	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 femur	cc
13	femur	femur	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bone	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 quarter	punct
15	about	about	ADV	_	17 quarter	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 quarter	det
17	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bone	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 height	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 height	nmod:poss
20	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quarter	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ear	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ear	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bone	det
24	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 bone	amod
25	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ear	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ear	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 ear	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ear	nmod:poss
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bone	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 smaller	cc
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 smaller	cop
32	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 ear	conj
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 grain	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 grain	det
35	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 smaller	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 rice	case
37	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grain	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bone	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the longest bone in the body	the thigh bone or femur and your ear			tree rules
2	is	present	the smallest bone		your ear		tree rules
3	is	present	the smallest bone not said here			than a grain of rice; small property	tree rules

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:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:11.

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 ×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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