--- title: The funny bone is not a bone but a nerve near the elbow, close to th… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics description: The funny bone is not a bone but a nerve near the elbow, close to the skin, and bumping it sends a zinging feeling down the arm; the name may be a joke on the arm bone called the humerus. Who acts: funny bone, bumping, name, arm bone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funny bone, bumping, name, arm bone), 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:8 # text = The funny bone is not a bone but a nerve near the elbow, close to the skin, and bumping it sends a zinging feeling down the arm; the name may be a joke on the arm bone called the humerus. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 near near ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 bumping bump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 zinging zing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 amod _ _ 26 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 down down ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 acl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 humerus humerus NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the funny bone | a bone but a nerve near the elbow | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the funny bone *not said here* | | | | | to the skin | tree rules | | 3 | **bump** | gerund | | skin | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **send** | present | bumping | a zinging feeling | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme | | 5 | **zing** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | may | the name | a joke | | the arm bone | | | tree rules | | 7 | **call** | participle | the arm bone *not said here* | the humerus | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent humerus=Recipient | 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](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: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): R6-punct-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. 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