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title: The shoulder blade, or scapula, is a flat triangular bone held mostl… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: The shoulder blade, or scapula, is a flat triangular bone held mostly by muscles, gliding on the back so the arm can move widely. Who acts: shoulder blade, arm. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 5

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The shoulder blade, or scapula, is a flat triangular bone held mostly by muscles, gliding on the back so the arm can move widely.

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**Who acts:** shoulder blade, arm · **What happens:** be, hold, glide, move · **To what, where:** flat triangular bone, back

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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 (shoulder blade, 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:5
# text = The shoulder blade, or scapula, is a flat triangular bone held mostly by muscles, gliding on the back so the arm can move widely.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	scapula	scapula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	triangular	triangular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | the shoulder blade or scapula | a flat triangular bone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | a flat triangular bone *not said here* |  |  |  | by muscles; mostly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by muscle=Location |
| 3 | **glide** | gerund |  |  |  | the back |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 4 | **move** | can | the arm |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:5`.

**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 ×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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