The skeleton and muscles, sentence 2
Bones are alive: they grow, they mend when they break, and inside many of them soft marrow makes new blood cells.
Who acts: Bones, soft marrow · What happens: be, grow, mend, break, make · To what, where: new blood cells, many
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 (Bones, soft marrow), 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 | Bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 alive | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 alive | cop |
| 3 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 alive | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mend | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mend | nsubj |
| 9 | mend | mend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 break | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 break | nsubj |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mend | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 makes | cc |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 many | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 makes | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 many | nmod |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 marrow | amod |
| 20 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 alive | conj |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cells | amod |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cells | compound |
| 24 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 makes | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bones | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | bones = bone | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mend | present | bones = bone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | break | present | bones = bone | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | present | soft marrow | new blood cells | many of bones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cell=Product |
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:2.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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