--- title: The skull looks like one big bone, but it is 22 bones fitted togethe… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics description: The skull looks like one big bone, but it is 22 bones fitted together with zigzag seams called sutures, as tight as the pieces of a hard jigsaw. Who acts: skull, zigzag seams. 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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 (skull, zigzag seams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.lesson:0 # text = The skull looks like one big bone, but it is 22 bones fitted together with zigzag seams called sutures, as tight as the pieces of a hard jigsaw. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 14 fitted fit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 together together ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 zigzag zigzag NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 seams seam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 sutures suture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 jigsaw jigsaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the skull | | | | | like one big bone | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | skull | 22 bones | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fit together** | participle | | 22 bones *not said here* | | | | with zigzag seams; together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** | participle | zigzag seams *not said here* | sutures | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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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