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title: The thumb has two finger bones and the other fingers three each, and… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: The thumb has two finger bones and the other fingers three each, and the thumb can touch every fingertip, which gives a strong, careful grip. Who acts: thumb, fingertip. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 10

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The thumb has two finger bones and the other fingers three each, and the thumb can touch every fingertip, which gives a strong, careful grip.

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**Who acts:** thumb, fingertip · **What happens:** have, touch, give · **To what, where:** two finger bones, fingertip, strong careful grip

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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 (thumb, fingertip), 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:10
# text = The thumb has two finger bones and the other fingers three each, and the thumb can touch every fingertip, which gives a strong, careful grip.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	fingertip	fingertip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	grip	grip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	.	.	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 thumb | two finger bones and the other fingers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **touch** | can | the thumb | every fingertip |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fingertip=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present | every fingertip | a strong careful grip |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grip=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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**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): R1-cc-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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