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title: The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body; it joins th… — Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, kne… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body; it joins the calf muscles to the heel bone and is named after the Greek hero Achilles, who in the legend was wounded in the heel. Who acts: Achilles tendon, body. A sentence of the lesson «Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, el
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# Muscles and joints by name: biceps, triceps, knees, elbows and the busiest muscles, sentence 8

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The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body; it joins the calf muscles to the heel bone and is named after the Greek hero Achilles, who in the legend was wounded in the heel.

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**Who acts:** Achilles tendon, body · **What happens:** be, join, name, wound · **To what, where:** strongest tendon, body, calf muscles, Greek hero, legend

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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 (Achilles tendon, body), 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:8
# text = The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the body; it joins the calf muscles to the heel bone and is named after the Greek hero Achilles, who in the legend was wounded in the heel.
# 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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Achilles	achilles	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tendon	tendon	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	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	tendon	tendon	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	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det
26	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod
27	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound
28	Achilles	Achilles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	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 Achilles tendon | the strongest tendon |  | the body |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | present | body | the calf muscles |  |  |  | to the heel bone | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient to bone=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **name** | present · passive | body *not said here* | the Greek hero |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **wound** | past · passive |  | the Greek hero |  | the legend |  | in the heel | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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 ×6, 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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