--- title: People have 12 pairs of ribs, 24 in all, and men and women have the… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics description: People have 12 pairs of ribs, 24 in all, and men and women have the same number; the idea that men have one rib fewer is a myth. Who acts: People, men, idea. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs/) / 12 # Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 12 People have 12 pairs of ribs, 24 in all, and men and women have the same number; the idea that men have one rib fewer is a myth. **Who acts:** People, men, idea · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** 12 pairs, same number, one rib, myth 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 (People, men, idea), 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:12 # text = People have 12 pairs of ribs, 24 in all, and men and women have the same number; the idea that men have one rib fewer is a myth. # 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 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 appos _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 rib rib NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | People | 12 pairs of ribs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | men and women | the same number | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | men | one rib | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the idea | a myth | | | | | tree rules | 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:12`. **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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