--- title: The longest bone in the body is the thigh bone, or femur, about a qu… — The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from le… · tree and pragmatics description: The longest bone in the body is the thigh bone, or femur, about a quarter of your height, and the smallest bone is in your ear and is smaller than a grain of rice. Who acts: longest bone, smallest bone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (longest bone, smallest bone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:11 # text = The longest bone in the body is the thigh bone, or femur, about a quarter of your height, and the smallest bone is in your ear and is smaller than a grain of rice. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 thigh thigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 femur femur NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 conj _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the longest bone in the body | the thigh bone or femur and your ear | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the smallest bone | | | your ear | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | the smallest bone *not said here* | | | | | than a grain of rice; small *property* | tree rules | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:11`. **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 ×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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