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description: Bend your arm and feel the biceps at the front go hard as it pulls the forearm up; straighten it and the triceps at the back pulls it down again. Who acts: you, biceps, arm, triceps. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» of the 
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# Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 2

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Bend your arm and feel the biceps at the front go hard as it pulls the forearm up; straighten it and the triceps at the back pulls it down again.

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**Who acts:** you, biceps, arm, triceps · **What happens:** bend, feel, go, pull up, straighten, pull down · **To what, where:** arm, forearm

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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 (you, biceps, arm, triceps), 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:2
# text = Bend your arm and feel the biceps at the front go hard as it pulls the forearm up; straighten it and the triceps at the back pulls it down again.
# 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 ×2
1	Bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	biceps	biceps	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obj
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forearm	forearm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	straighten	straighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	triceps	triceps	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **bend** | imperative | you *not said here* | your arm |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | the biceps at the front |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pull up** | present | arm | the forearm |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forearm=Theme |
| 5 | **straighten** | infinitive | you *not said here* | forearm |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **pull down** | present | the triceps at the back | forearm |  |  | again |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 ×2. **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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