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description: Each hip bone is three bones fused together; the two hip bones and the base of the spine form the pelvis, which carries the upper body's weight to the legs and protects organs. Who acts: two hip bones, pelvis. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a bab
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 7

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Each hip bone is three bones fused together; the two hip bones and the base of the spine form the pelvis, which carries the upper body's weight to the legs and protects organs.

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**Who acts:** two hip bones, pelvis · **What happens:** fuse, form, carry, protect · **To what, where:** hip bone, pelvis, weight, legs, organs

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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 (two hip bones, pelvis), 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:7
# text = Each hip bone is three bones fused together; the two hip bones and the base of the spine form the pelvis, which carries the upper body's weight to the legs and protects organs.
# 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	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
7	fused	fuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	hip	hip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pelvis	pelvis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
36	organs	organ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 |  | each hip bone |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **form** | present | the two hip bones and the base of the spine | the pelvis |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pelvis=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | present | the pelvis | the upper body's weight |  | the legs |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weight=Theme to leg=Destination |
| 4 | **protect** | present | the pelvis *not said here* | organs |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Beneficiary |

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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.

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