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description: An adult has 206 bones, while a baby has about 300 that join as it grows; the smallest bone is in the ear and the biggest is the thigh bone. Who acts: adult, baby, smallest bone, biggest. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» of the biology course of 
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# The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 8

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An adult has 206 bones, while a baby has about 300 that join as it grows; the smallest bone is in the ear and the biggest is the thigh bone.

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**Who acts:** adult, baby, smallest bone, biggest · **What happens:** have, join, grow, be · **To what, where:** 206 bones, 300, ear, thigh bone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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, smallest bone, biggest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:8
# text = An adult has 206 bones, while a baby has about 300 that join as it grows; the smallest bone is in the ear and the biggest is the thigh bone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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	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	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
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	advcl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:amod
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | present | baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | the smallest bone |  |  | the ear and the thigh bone |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the biggest | the thigh bone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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

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