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title: Run your hand down a friend's back and you feel a row of bumps: thes… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics
description: Run your hand down a friend's back and you feel a row of bumps: these are the back edges of the vertebrae, the bones of the spine, stacked in a gentle S-curve with soft cushions called discs between them. Who acts: you, these, soft cushions. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, s
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# Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 2

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Run your hand down a friend's back and you feel a row of bumps: these are the back edges of the vertebrae, the bones of the spine, stacked in a gentle S-curve with soft cushions called discs between them.

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**Who acts:** you, these, soft cushions · **What happens:** run down, feel, be, stack, call · **To what, where:** hand, row, back edges, gentle S curve, discs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, these, soft cushions), 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:2
# text = Run your hand down a friend's back and you feel a row of bumps: these are the back edges of the vertebrae, the bones of the spine, stacked in a gentle S-curve with soft cushions called discs between them.
# 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 ×2
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bumps	bump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	back	back	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	vertebrae	vertebra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	stacked	stack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	S	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	_
38	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	discs	disc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
44	between	between	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **run down** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  | a friend's back *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **feel** | present | you | a row of bumps |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | these | the back edges |  |  |  | of the vertebrae and the bones of the spine | tree rules |
| 4 | **stack** | participle |  | the back edges *not said here* |  | a gentle S curve with soft cushions |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in curve=Destination |
| 5 | **call** | participle | soft cushions *not said here* | discs |  |  |  | between discs *= disc* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disc=Recipient |

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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): R5-strong ×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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