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description: Some muscles hardly ever stop: the heart beats about 100,000 times a day, and your eye muscles flick your eyes many tens of thousands of times a day. Who acts: muscles, heart, eye muscles. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles» o
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# Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 5

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Some muscles hardly ever stop: the heart beats about 100,000 times a day, and your eye muscles flick your eyes many tens of thousands of times a day.

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**Who acts:** muscles, heart, eye muscles · **What happens:** stop, beat about, flick · **To what, where:** 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 (muscles, heart, 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:5
# text = Some muscles hardly ever stop: the heart beats about 100,000 times a day, and your eye muscles flick your eyes 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	flick	flick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **stop** | present | some muscles |  |  |  | ever | hardly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **beat about** | present | the heart |  |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flick** | present | your eye muscles | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent eye=Destination ten=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 ×1, 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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