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title: The spine is made of 33 vertebrae: 7 in the neck, 12 in the chest, 5… — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs · tree and pragmatics
description: The spine is made of 33 vertebrae: 7 in the neck, 12 in the chest, 5 in the lower back, and the rest fused together into the base of the spine and the tailbone. Who acts: rest. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs, sentence 8

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The spine is made of 33 vertebrae: 7 in the neck, 12 in the chest, 5 in the lower back, and the rest fused together into the base of the spine and the tailbone.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** make, fuse · **To what, where:** spine

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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 (rest), 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:8
# text = The spine is made of 33 vertebrae: 7 in the neck, 12 in the chest, 5 in the lower back, and the rest fused together into the base of the spine and the tailbone.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	33	33	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	vertebrae	vertebra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	appos	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fused	fuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tailbone	tailbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | the spine |  |  |  | of 33 vertebrae in the neck | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **fuse** | participle | the rest |  |  |  |  | into the base of the spine and the tailbone; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient into base=Co-Patient |

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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): R8-pos-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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