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title: The biggest muscle is the gluteus maximus in the bottom, which helps… — Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, kne… · tree and pragmatics
description: The biggest muscle is the gluteus maximus in the bottom, which helps hold you upright and push you up stairs; the smallest is a tiny muscle in the middle ear that helps protect hearing from loud sounds. Who acts: biggest muscle, gluteus maximus, smallest, tiny muscle. A sentence of the lesson «Muscl
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# Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 14

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The biggest muscle is the gluteus maximus in the bottom, which helps hold you upright and push you up stairs; the smallest is a tiny muscle in the middle ear that helps protect hearing from loud sounds.

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**Who acts:** biggest muscle, gluteus maximus, smallest, tiny muscle · **What happens:** be, help, hold, push up, protect · **To what, where:** gluteus maximus, bottom, you, tiny muscle, middle ear, hearing

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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 (biggest muscle, gluteus maximus, smallest, tiny muscle), 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:14
# text = The biggest muscle is the gluteus maximus in the bottom, which helps hold you upright and push you up stairs; the smallest is a tiny muscle in the middle ear that helps protect hearing from loud sounds.
# 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	gluteus	gluteus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	maximus	maximus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl:relcl
14	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
16	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det
24	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:amod
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl:relcl
35	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
36	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	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 a** | present | the biggest muscle | the gluteus maximus |  | the bottom |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | the gluteus maximus |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | the gluteus maximus *not said here* | you |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **push up** | infinitive | the gluteus maximus *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent you=Theme stair=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the smallest | a tiny muscle |  | the middle ear |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **help** | present | a tiny muscle |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **protect** | infinitive | a tiny muscle *not said here* | hearing |  |  |  | from loud sounds | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hearing=Beneficiary from sound=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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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