Cells, bones and muscles, sentence 9
The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone in the middle ear, about 3 millimetres long, and the longest is the thigh bone, the femur.
Who acts: smallest bone, longest · What happens: be · To what, where: stirrup bone, middle ear, thigh bone
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 (smallest bone, longest), 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 | smallest | small | 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 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bone | compound |
| 10 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 ear | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ear | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ear | amod |
| 14 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bone | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 millimetres | punct |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 3 | advmod |
| 17 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 millimetres | nummod |
| 18 | millimetres | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bone | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 millimetres | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bone | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bone | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 longest | det |
| 23 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 bone | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 bone | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bone | det |
| 26 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bone | compound |
| 27 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bone | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 femur | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 femur | det |
| 30 | femur | femur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bone | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bone | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the smallest bone in the body | the stirrup bone and the thigh bone | the middle ear | 3 millimetres obl:unmarked | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | present | the longest | the thigh bone | 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.
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