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title: An adult skeleton has 206 bones; a newborn baby has around 270 to 30… — Cells, bones and muscles · tree and pragmatics
description: An adult skeleton has 206 bones; a newborn baby has around 270 to 300, and some of them join together as the child grows. Who acts: adult skeleton, newborn baby, some, child. A sentence of the lesson «Cells, bones and muscles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Cells, bones and muscles, sentence 8

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An adult skeleton has 206 bones; a newborn baby has around 270 to 300, and some of them join together as the child grows.

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**Who acts:** adult skeleton, newborn baby, some, child · **What happens:** have, join, grow · **To what, where:** 206 bones, 270

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cells, bones and 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 (adult skeleton, newborn baby, some, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.lesson:8
# text = An adult skeleton has 206 bones; a newborn baby has around 270 to 300, and some of them join together as the child grows.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 064-cells-bones-and-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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	206	206	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	newborn	newborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	around	around	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a adult skeleton | 206 bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | a newborn baby | 270 |  |  |  | to 300 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 270=Patient |
| 3 | **join** | present | some |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | present | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.lesson:8`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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