--- title: Bang your elbow on a table and your little finger tingles: that is t… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics description: Bang your elbow on a table and your little finger tingles: that is the funny bone, which is not a bone at all but a nerve lying close under the skin. Who acts: you, little finger, that, funny bone. 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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 (you, little finger, that, funny 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:3 # text = Bang your elbow on a table and your little finger tingles: that is the funny bone, which is not a bone at all but a nerve lying close under the skin. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bang bang VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 tingles tingle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nmod _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj 29 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl 30 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 under under ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bang** | imperative | you *not said here* | your elbow | | a table | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme on table=Trajectory | | 2 | **tingle** | present | your little finger | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | the funny bone | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | the funny bone | a bone but a nerve | | all | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | a nerve *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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