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title: The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone in the middle ear,… — Cells, bones and muscles · tree and pragmatics
description: The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone in the middle ear, about 3 millimetres long, and the longest is the thigh bone, the femur. Who acts: smallest bone, longest. 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 9

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The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone in the middle ear, about 3 millimetres long, and the longest is the thigh bone, the femur.

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**Who acts:** smallest bone, longest · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** stirrup bone, middle ear, thigh bone

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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 (smallest bone, longest), 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:9
# text = The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone in the middle ear, about 3 millimetres long, and the longest is the thigh bone, the femur.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	smallest	small	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	stirrup	stirrup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det
23	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	femur	femur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 smallest bone in the body | the stirrup bone and the thigh bone |  | the middle ear |  | 3 millimetres *obl:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the longest | the thigh bone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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.

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

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