--- title: Ribs protect the heart and lungs, and the lowest two pairs are float… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics description: Ribs protect the heart and lungs, and the lowest two pairs are floating ribs, not joined at the front, which leaves room to breathe and bend. Who acts: Ribs, lowest two pairs, front. 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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 (Ribs, lowest two pairs, front), 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:13 # text = Ribs protect the heart and lungs, and the lowest two pairs are floating ribs, not joined at the front, which leaves room to breathe and bend. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 lowest low ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 conj _ _ 15 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **protect** | present | Ribs | the heart and lungs | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Beneficiary | | 2 | **float** | present · progressive | the lowest two pairs | ribs | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Agent | | 3 | **not** **join** | participle | | ribs *not said here* | | the front | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **leave** | present | the front | room | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | | 5 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | the front *not said here* | room *not said here* | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bend** | infinitive | the front *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:13`. **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): R5-strong ×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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