Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 16

A newborn human baby has about 270 to 300 bones and pieces of cartilage, many of which fuse to leave 206 in an adult, and human babies need their parents for many years.

Who acts: newborn human baby, many, human babies · What happens: have, fuse, leave, need · To what, where: 270 bones, 206, parents

This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 (newborn human baby, many, human babies), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baby	det
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 baby	amod
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 baby	amod
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 270	advmod
7	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 bones	nummod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 300	case
9	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 270	nmod
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pieces	cc
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bones	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 cartilage	case
14	cartilage	cartilage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pieces	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fuse	punct
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fuse	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 many	fixed
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 many	nmod
19	fuse	fuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bones	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 leave	mark
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fuse	xcomp
22	206	206	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 leave	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 adult	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 adult	det
25	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 need	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 need	cc
28	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 babies	amod
29	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 need	nsubj
30	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 parents	nmod:poss
32	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 need	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 years	case
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 years	amod
35	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 need	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a newborn human baby	270 bones and pieces of cartilage			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	fuse	present	many				tree rules
3	leave	to-infinitive	many not said here	206		in a adult	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent 206=Theme in adult=Location
4	need	present	human babies	babies's parents	year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=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:049-babies.lesson:16.

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 ×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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