--- title: Twelve pairs of ribs curve round from the spine like a cage, guardin… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics description: Twelve pairs of ribs curve round from the spine like a cage, guarding the heart and lungs while still letting the chest swell when you breathe. Who acts: Twelve pairs, chest, you. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 3 Twelve pairs of ribs curve round from the spine like a cage, guarding the heart and lungs while still letting the chest swell when you breathe. **Who acts:** Twelve pairs, chest, you · **What happens:** curve, guard, let, swell, breathe · **To what, where:** spine, heart 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 (Twelve pairs, chest, you), 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:3 # text = Twelve pairs of ribs curve round from the spine like a cage, guarding the heart and lungs while still letting the chest swell when you breathe. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 curve curve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 round round ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 swell swell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **curve** | present | Twelve pairs of ribs | | | the spine | | like a cage; round *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | | 2 | **guard** | gerund | Twelve pairs of ribs *not said here* | the heart and lungs | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Beneficiary | | 3 | **let** | gerund | Twelve pairs of ribs *not said here* | | | | still | | tree rules | | 4 | **swell** | infinitive | the chest | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **breathe** | present | you | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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:3`. **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, 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. 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