--- title: In a baby the sutures are still open, with soft spots between the bo… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics description: In a baby the sutures are still open, with soft spots between the bones, so the head can squeeze through at birth and the brain can grow; they close slowly into adulthood. Who acts: sutures, head, brain. 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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 (sutures, head, brain), 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:5 # text = In a baby the sutures are still open, with soft spots between the bones, so the head can squeeze through at birth and the brain can grow; they close slowly into adulthood. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sutures suture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 between between ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 squeeze squeeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 33 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 34 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 adulthood adulthood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is** | present | the sutures | | | a baby | still | with soft spots between the bones; open *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **squeeze** | can | the head | | | birth | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through birth=Trajectory | | 3 | **grow** | can | the brain | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **close** | present | sutures *= suture* | | | adulthood | | slowly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into adulthood=Recipient | 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:5`. **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. 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