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title: The eye muscles are among the busiest in the body, moving the eyes q… — Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, kne… · tree and pragmatics
description: The eye muscles are among the busiest in the body, moving the eyes quickly and precisely many tens of thousands of times a day. Who acts: eye muscles. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 12

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The eye muscles are among the busiest in the body, moving the eyes quickly and precisely many tens of thousands of times a day.

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**Who acts:** eye muscles · **What happens:** be, move · **To what, where:** body, eyes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» 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 (eye muscles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:360-muscles-and-joints-by-name-biceps-triceps-knees-elbows-and-the-busiest-muscles.lesson:12
# text = The eye muscles are among the busiest in the body, moving the eyes quickly and precisely many tens of thousands of times a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 360-muscles-and-joints-by-name-biceps-triceps-knees-elbows-and-the-busiest-muscles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **is** | present | the eye muscles |  |  | the body |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | the eye muscles *not said here* | the eyes |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=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): R7-rel-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.

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