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title: Your legs carry your whole weight all day, so their bones are the bi… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extr… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: legs, bones, you, femur. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bon
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** legs, bones, you, femur · **What happens:** carry, be, have · **To what, where:** whole weight, longest bone, body

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» 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 (legs, bones, you, femur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	femur	femur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det
26	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod
29	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **carry** | present | Your legs | your whole weight |  |  | day |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | legs's bones |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the femur in the thigh | the longest bone |  | the body |  |  | tree rules |

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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 ×4, 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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