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title: Muscles can only pull, not push, so they work in pairs, like the bic… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: Muscles can only pull, not push, so they work in pairs, like the biceps that bends the arm and the triceps that straightens it. Who acts: Muscles, biceps, triceps. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 10

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Muscles can only pull, not push, so they work in pairs, like the biceps that bends the arm and the triceps that straightens it.

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**Who acts:** Muscles, biceps, triceps · **What happens:** pull, not push, work, bend, straighten · **To what, where:** arm

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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 (Muscles, biceps, triceps), 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:10
# text = Muscles can only pull, not push, so they work in pairs, like the biceps that bends the arm and the triceps that straightens it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	biceps	biceps	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	triceps	triceps	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	straightens	straighten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pull** | can | Muscles |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **push** | infinitive | Muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** | present | Muscles *= muscle* |  |  |  |  | in pairs like the biceps and the triceps | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in pair=Theme |
| 4 | **bend** | present | the biceps and the triceps | the arm |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material |
| 5 | **straighten** | present | the triceps | arm |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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**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 ×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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