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title: Muscles grow stronger with use; astronauts in space lose muscle with… — Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, kne… · tree and pragmatics
description: Muscles grow stronger with use; astronauts in space lose muscle without gravity to work against, so they exercise about two hours a day. Who acts: Muscles, astronauts. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» of the biology course 
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# Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 16

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Muscles grow stronger with use; astronauts in space lose muscle without gravity to work against, so they exercise about two hours a day.

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**Who acts:** Muscles, astronauts · **What happens:** grow, lose, work, exercise · **To what, where:** muscle

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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 (Muscles, astronauts), 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:16
# text = Muscles grow stronger with use; astronauts in space lose muscle without gravity to work against, so they exercise about two hours 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	muscle	muscle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	exercise	exercise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:unmarked	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **grow** | present | Muscles |  |  |  |  | with use; strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | present | astronauts in space | muscle |  |  |  | without gravity | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muscle=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | astronauts in space *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **exercise** | present | muscles *= muscle* |  |  |  | day |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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