The skeleton and muscles, sentence 1

The skeleton holds you up, gives your body its shape and protects soft parts: the skull guards the brain and the ribs guard the heart and lungs.

Who acts: skeleton, skull, ribs · What happens: hold up, give, protect, guard · To what, where: you, shape, body, soft parts, brain, heart

This is a sentence of the lesson «The skeleton and muscles» of the world 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 (skeleton, skull, ribs), 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	2 skeleton	det
2	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holds	nsubj
3	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 holds	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 holds	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	conj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 body	nmod:poss
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	iobj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shape	nmod:poss
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 protects	cc
13	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	conj
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 parts	amod
15	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 protects	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 guards	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skull	det
18	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guards	nsubj
19	guards	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holds	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brain	det
21	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guards	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 guard	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ribs	det
24	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 guard	nsubj
25	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 guards	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heart	det
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guard	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lungs	cc
29	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heart	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hold up	present	the skeleton	you		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme
2	give	present	the skeleton not said here	skeleton's shape	your body	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient shape=Theme
3	protect	present	the skeleton not said here	soft parts		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Beneficiary
4	guard	present	the skull	the brain		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Beneficiary
5	guard	present	the ribs	the heart and lungs		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Beneficiary

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:world:031-skeleton-and-muscles.lesson:1.

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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