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description: Only one skull bone moves: the lower jaw, which swings on a hinge just in front of each ear; put your fingers there and open your mouth to feel it. Who acts: one skull bone, lower jaw. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
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# Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 1

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Only one skull bone moves: the lower jaw, which swings on a hinge just in front of each ear; put your fingers there and open your mouth to feel it.

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**Who acts:** one skull bone, lower jaw · **What happens:** move, swing, put, open, feel · **To what, where:** hinge, fingers, mouth, bone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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 (one skull bone, lower jaw), 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:1
# text = Only one skull bone moves: the lower jaw, which swings on a hinge just in front of each ear; put your fingers there and open your mouth to feel it.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	jaw	jaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	swings	swing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **move** | present | one skull bone |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swing** | present | the lower jaw |  |  | a hinge |  | in front of each ear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on hinge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | your fingers |  | there |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive |  | your mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  | bone |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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**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 ×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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