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title: Your arm is a chain of bones from the shoulder to the fingertips: th… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Your arm is a chain of bones from the shoulder to the fingertips: the collarbone and shoulder blade at the top, one long upper arm bone, two forearm bones and then a hand packed with small bones. Who acts: arm. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course
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# Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 0

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Your arm is a chain of bones from the shoulder to the fingertips: the collarbone and shoulder blade at the top, one long upper arm bone, two forearm bones and then a hand packed with small bones.

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**Who acts:** arm · **What happens:** be, pack · **To what, where:** chain, hand

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» 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 (arm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands.lesson:0
# text = Your arm is a chain of bones from the shoulder to the fingertips: the collarbone and shoulder blade at the top, one long upper arm bone, two forearm bones and then a hand packed with small bones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands.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 ×2
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	collarbone	collarbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
26	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	forearm	forearm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Your arm | a chain |  |  |  | of bones from the shoulder to the fingertips | tree rules |
| 2 | **pack** | participle |  | a hand *not said here* |  |  |  | with small bones | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bone=Theme |

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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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**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:358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands.lesson:0`.

**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 ×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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