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title: A baby has about 300 bones, and many of them join together as it gro… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: A baby has about 300 bones, and many of them join together as it grows, so a grown-up ends up with 206. Who acts: baby, many, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 1

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A baby has about 300 bones, and many of them join together as it grows, so a grown-up ends up with 206.

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**Who acts:** baby, many, grown up · **What happens:** have, join, grow, end up · **To what, where:** 300 bones

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin» 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 (baby, many, grown up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:1
# text = A baby has about 300 bones, and many of them join together as it grows, so a grown-up ends up with 206.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
20	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
23	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	206	206	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a baby | 300 bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **join** | present | many of Bones |  |  |  |  | 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 |
| 4 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **end up** | present | a grown up |  |  |  |  | with 206 | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.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): R5-strong ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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