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title: In many people two of the little toe's bones are fused, so it has on… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extr… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: tendon, this. 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 with its
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 11

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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.

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**Who acts:** tendon, this · **What happens:** fuse, have, be · **To what, where:** two, two bones

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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 (tendon, this), 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:11
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	fused	fuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **fuse** | present · passive |  | two of the little toe's bones |  |  |  | in many people | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | tendon | two bones |  |  |  | instead three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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): 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.

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