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title: Now turn a door handle: your hand flips palm up and palm down becaus… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Now turn a door handle: your hand flips palm up and palm down because one forearm bone, the radius, rolls over the other, the ulna. Who acts: you, hand, one forearm bone. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 2

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Now turn a door handle: your hand flips palm up and palm down because one forearm bone, the radius, rolls over the other, the ulna.

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**Who acts:** you, hand, one forearm bone · **What happens:** turn, flip, palm up, palm down, roll · **To what, where:** door handle, other

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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 (you, hand, one forearm bone), 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:2
# text = Now turn a door handle: your hand flips palm up and palm down because one forearm bone, the radius, rolls over the other, the ulna.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flips	flip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	palm	palm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	palm	palm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	forearm	forearm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	radius	radius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ulna	ulna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | a door handle |  |  | now |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent handle=Theme |
| 2 | **flip** | present | your hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **palm up** | present | your hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **palm down** | infinitive | your hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **roll** | present | one forearm bone and the radius and the ulna |  |  | the other |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over other=Trajectory |

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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.

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

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