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title: A newborn baby has about 270 to 300 bones, more than you; as it grow… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extr… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: newborn baby, baby, many, grown. 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
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 3

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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.

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**Who acts:** newborn baby, baby, many, grown · **What happens:** have, grow, join · **To what, where:** 270 bones, 206

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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 baby, baby, many, grown), 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:3
# text = 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.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
27	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
31	206	206	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 baby | 270 bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | infinitive | many of bones |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | grown | 206 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 206=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. **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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