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title: The forearm has two bones, the radius on the thumb side and the ulna… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: The forearm has two bones, the radius on the thumb side and the ulna on the little-finger side; the radius rolls over the ulna when you turn your hand. Who acts: forearm, radius, you. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w
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# Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 8

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The forearm has two bones, the radius on the thumb side and the ulna on the little-finger side; the radius rolls over the ulna when you turn your hand.

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**Who acts:** forearm, radius, you · **What happens:** have, roll, turn · **To what, where:** two bones, ulna, hand

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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 (forearm, radius, you), 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:8
# text = The forearm has two bones, the radius on the thumb side and the ulna on the little-finger side; the radius rolls over the ulna when you turn your hand.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	forearm	forearm	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	5	nummod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	radius	radius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ulna	ulna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	radius	radius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ulna	ulna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nmod
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | the forearm | two bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | present | the radius |  |  | the ulna |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ulna=Trajectory |
| 3 | **turn** | present | you | your hand |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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