The skeleton and muscles, sentence 8
A baby is born with about 300 bones, and some of them join together as it grows.
Who acts: some, baby · What happens: bear, join, grow · To what, where: baby
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 (some, baby), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 baby | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bones | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 300 | advmod |
| 7 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 bones | nummod |
| 8 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 born | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 join | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 join | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 join | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 some | nmod |
| 14 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 join | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 grows | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grows | nsubj |
| 18 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 join | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · passive | a baby | with 300 bones | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | present | some | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | baby | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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