Cells, bones and muscles, sentence 14
Smooth cartilage and a slippery fluid let the ends of bones glide in a joint.
Who acts: Smooth cartilage, ends · What happens: let, glide · To what, where: ends, joint
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cells, bones and 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 (Smooth cartilage, ends), 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 | Smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cartilage | amod |
| 2 | cartilage | cartilage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fluid | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fluid | det |
| 5 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fluid | amod |
| 6 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cartilage | conj |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ends | det |
| 9 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 let | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bones | case |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ends | nmod |
| 12 | glide | glide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 joint | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 joint | det |
| 15 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glide | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Smooth cartilage and a slippery fluid | the ends of bones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glide | infinitive | the ends of bones not said here | a joint | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joint=Trajectory |
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:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.lesson:14.
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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