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title: A newborn has about 270 to 300 bones, many of which fuse as it grows… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extr… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: newborn, many, skull. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» of the biology course
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 12

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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.

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**Who acts:** newborn, many, skull · **What happens:** have, fuse, grow, leave · **To what, where:** 270 bones, 206, many fused parts

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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 (newborn, many, skull), 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:12
# text = 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.
# 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 ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	newborn	newborn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int
13	fuse	fuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
19	206	206	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	fused	fuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	.	.	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 | a newborn | 270 bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **fuse** | present | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | present | newborn |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | many *not said here* | 206 |  |  |  | in a adult | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent 206=Theme in adult=Location |
| 5 | **have** | present | the skull and the base of the spine | many fused parts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 6 | **fuse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 ×3. **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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