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title: The shin bone, the tibia, lies just under the skin with little paddi… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extr… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: shin bone, kicks, thin fibula. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» of t
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 6

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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.

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**Who acts:** shin bone, kicks, thin fibula · **What happens:** lie, be, hurt, wear, run · **To what, where:** skin, kicks, shin guards, padding

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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 (shin bone, kicks, thin fibula), 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:6
# text = 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.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tibia	tibia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	padding	padding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	kicks	kick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det
29	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod
30	fibula	fibula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:compound
31	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
32	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **lie** | present | the shin bone |  |  | the skin |  | with little padding | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under skin=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | participle |  | kicks and footballers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wear** | present | kicks and footballers | shin guards |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent guard=Source |
| 5 | **run** | present | the thin fibula |  |  | padding |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×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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