--- title: Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your legs carry your whole weight all day, so their bones are the biggest you have: the femur in the thi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, an… # Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby Lesson 359 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/0/) — Your legs carry your whole weight all day, so their bones are the biggest you have: the femur in the thigh is the longest and strongest bone in the body, about a quarter of your height. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/1/) — Each hip bone looks like one bone but is really three fused together, and together the hips form the pelvis, a bowl that passes your weight down to your legs and shelters organs inside. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/2/) — Step out of the bath onto a dry floor and look at your wet footprint: the missing bit on the inside edge is your arch, a spring made of many small foot bones. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/3/) — A newborn baby has about 270 to 300 bones, more than you; as it grows, many of them join together, until a grown-up has 206. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/4/) — The femur, or thigh bone, is the longest and strongest bone in the body, about a quarter of a person's height. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/5/) — The kneecap protects the front of the knee and helps the thigh muscles pull; in babies it is soft cartilage that turns to bone over the first years. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/6/) — The shin bone, the tibia, lies just under the skin with little padding, which is why kicks hurt and footballers wear shin guards; the thin fibula runs beside it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/7/) — Each hip bone is three bones fused together; the two hip bones and the base of the spine form the pelvis, which carries the upper body's weight to the legs and protects organs. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/8/) — Each foot has 26 bones, so both feet have 52; hands and feet together hold over half of all the body's bones. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/9/) — The arch of the foot works like a spring; toddlers have flat feet and grow arches later, and some people keep flat feet with no problems. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/10/) — The heel bone is the largest bone of the foot; it takes the shock of each step, and the Achilles tendon attaches to it. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/11/) — In many people two of the little toe's bones are fused, so it has only two bones instead of three; this is common and harmless. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/12/) — A newborn has about 270 to 300 bones, many of which fuse as it grows, leaving 206 in an adult; the skull and the base of the spine have many fused parts. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/13/) — Growth plates near the ends of bones are where the bones grow longer; they show as dark lines on an X-ray and close in the late teens, after which you stop getting taller. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/14/) — A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals badly that bone may grow less. - ← previous: [Bones by name: shoulders, arms and hands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/358-bones-by-name-shoulders-arms-and-hands/) - next →: [Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/360-muscles-and-joints-by-name-biceps-triceps-knees-elbows-and-the-busiest-muscles/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)