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title: The skull has 22 bones: 8 around the brain and 14 in the face, joine… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics
description: The skull has 22 bones: 8 around the brain and 14 in the face, joined by zigzag seams called sutures. Who acts: skull, zigzag seams. 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 tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 4

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The skull has 22 bones: 8 around the brain and 14 in the face, joined by zigzag seams called sutures.

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**Who acts:** skull, zigzag seams · **What happens:** have, join, call · **To what, where:** 22 bones, sutures · **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 (skull, zigzag seams), 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:4
# text = The skull has 22 bones: 8 around the brain and 14 in the face, joined by zigzag seams called sutures.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	22	22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	seams	seam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	sutures	suture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | the skull | 22 bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | 22 bones *not said here* |  |  |  | by zigzag seams | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle | zigzag seams *not said here* | sutures |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 ×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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