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title: The arch of the foot works like a spring; toddlers have flat feet an… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The arch of the foot works like a spring; toddlers have flat feet and grow arches later, and some people keep flat feet with no problems. Who acts: arch, toddlers, people. 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 pri
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 9

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The arch of the foot works like a spring; toddlers have flat feet and grow arches later, and some people keep flat feet with no problems.

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**Who acts:** arch, toddlers, people · **What happens:** work, have, grow, keep · **To what, where:** flat feet, arches

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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 (arch, toddlers, people), 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:9
# text = The arch of the foot works like a spring; toddlers have flat feet and grow arches later, and some people keep flat feet with no problems.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	toddlers	toddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **work** | present | the arch of the foot |  |  |  | spring |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | toddlers | flat feet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | present | toddlers *not said here* | arches |  |  |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arch=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | present | some people | flat feet |  |  |  | with no problems | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |

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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): R8-pos-agree ×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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