The skeleton and muscles, sentence 11

The backbone (spine) is a column of small bones that holds the body upright and protects the spinal cord, the thick bundle of nerves running down your back.

Who acts: backbone, column, spinal cord · What happens: be, hold, protect, run down · To what, where: column, body, spinal cord, back

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 (backbone, column, spinal cord), 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 backbone	det
2	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 column	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 spine	punct
4	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 backbone	appos
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 spine	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 column	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 column	det
8	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bones	case
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bones	amod
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 column	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 holds	nsubj
13	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 column	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 body	det
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holds	obj
16	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 holds	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 protects	cc
18	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 holds	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cord	det
20	spinal	spinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cord	amod
21	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 protects	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bundle	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bundle	det
24	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bundle	amod
25	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cord	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 nerves	case
27	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bundle	nmod
28	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 cord	acl
29	down	down	ADP	_	31 back	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 back	nmod:poss
31	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 running	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 column	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the backbone	a column	of small bones	tree rules
2	hold	present	a column	the body	upright property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
3	protect	present	a column not said here	the spinal cord		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Beneficiary
4	run down	gerund	the spinal cord not said here	your back		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=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:world:031-skeleton-and-muscles.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 ×1, 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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