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title: An adult has 206 bones, but a baby has about 300, and many of them j… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult has 206 bones, but a baby has about 300, and many of them join together as the child grows. Who acts: adult, baby, many, child. 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 pragmatic
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# The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin, sentence 5

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An adult has 206 bones, but a baby has about 300, and many of them join together as the child grows.

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**Who acts:** adult, baby, many, child · **What happens:** have, join, grow · **To what, where:** 206 bones, 300

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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 (adult, baby, many, child), 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:5
# text = An adult has 206 bones, but a baby has about 300, and many of them join together as the child grows.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	206	206	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	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 adult | 206 bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | a baby | 300 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 300=Patient |
| 3 | **join** | present | many of Bones |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | present | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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