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title: Each hand has 27 bones: 8 in the wrist, 5 in the palm and 14 in the… — Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Each hand has 27 bones: 8 in the wrist, 5 in the palm and 14 in the fingers, so both hands together have 54, about a quarter of all the body's bones. Who acts: hand, hands. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands, sentence 9

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Each hand has 27 bones: 8 in the wrist, 5 in the palm and 14 in the fingers, so both hands together have 54, about a quarter of all the body's bones.

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**Who acts:** hand, hands · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 27 bones, wrist, 54

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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 (hand, hands), 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:9
# text = Each hand has 27 bones: 8 in the wrist, 5 in the palm and 14 in the fingers, so both hands together have 54, about a quarter of all the body's bones.
# 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	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
27	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	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 | each hand | 27 bones |  | the wrist |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | both hands | 54 and a quarter of the body's bones |  |  |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 54=Patient |

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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): 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.

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

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