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description: There are 27 bones in one hand and wrist, and doctors can guess a child's age from how the hand bones look on an X-ray. Who acts: 27 bones, doctors, hand bones. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger, sentence 7

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There are 27 bones in one hand and wrist, and doctors can guess a child's age from how the hand bones look on an X-ray.

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**Who acts:** 27 bones, doctors, hand bones · **What happens:** be, guess, look · **To what, where:** one hand, age

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up: growth spurts, height, voices and getting stronger» 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 (27 bones, doctors, hand bones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger.lesson:7
# text = There are 27 bones in one hand and wrist, and doctors can guess a child's age from how the hand bones look on an X-ray.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 361-growing-up-growth-spurts-height-voices-and-getting-stronger.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
29	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **does** | present | 27 bones |  |  | one hand and wrist; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **guess** | can | doctors | a child's age |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | the hand bones |  |  |  |  | on a X ray | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ray=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): 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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