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title: The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint and the most mobile joint in… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint and the most mobile joint in the body; its socket is shallow, so it moves freely but can pop out, which is called dislocation. Who acts: shoulder, socket. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course of Mova's prima
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# Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 6

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The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint and the most mobile joint in the body; its socket is shallow, so it moves freely but can pop out, which is called dislocation.

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**Who acts:** shoulder, socket · **What happens:** be, move, pop out, call · **To what, where:** ball socket joint, dislocation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, socket), 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:6
# text = The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint and the most mobile joint in the body; its socket is shallow, so it moves freely but can pop out, which is called dislocation.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	mobile	mobile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
28	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	pop	pop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
37	dislocation	dislocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the shoulder | a ball socket joint and the mobile joint in the body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | shoulder's socket |  |  |  |  | shallow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | present | socket |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pop out** | can | socket *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | dislocation |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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): no change. **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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