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title: Fingerprints are ridges that help us grip, every person's are differ… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: Fingerprints are ridges that help us grip, every person's are different, even identical twins', and koalas have fingerprints very like ours. Who acts: Fingerprints, ridges, us, person. A sentence of the lesson «The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin» of the biology course of Mova's primary s
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# The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 16

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Fingerprints are ridges that help us grip, every person's are different, even identical twins', and koalas have fingerprints very like ours.

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**Who acts:** Fingerprints, ridges, us, person, koalas · **What happens:** be, help, grip, have · **To what, where:** ridges, us, fingerprints

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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 (Fingerprints, ridges, us, person), 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:16
# text = Fingerprints are ridges that help us grip, every person's are different, even identical twins', and koalas have fingerprints very like ours.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fingerprints	fingerprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	grip	grip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	twins	twin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	',	',	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	fingerprints	fingerprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Fingerprints | ridges |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | ridges | us |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **grip** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | every person |  |  |  |  | ', identical twins; different *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | koalas | fingerprints |  |  |  | like ours | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingerprint=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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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