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title: Adults have about 206 bones; babies are born with around 270 to 300,… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole… · tree and pragmatics
description: Adults have about 206 bones; babies are born with around 270 to 300, and some fuse (join together) as they grow. Who acts: Adults, some, babies. A sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground, sentence 7

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Adults have about 206 bones; babies are born with around 270 to 300, and some fuse (join together) as they grow.

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**Who acts:** Adults, some, babies · **What happens:** have, bear, fuse, join, grow · **To what, where:** 206 bones, babies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 (Adults, some, babies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:7
# text = Adults have about 206 bones; babies are born with around 270 to 300, and some fuse (join together) as they grow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	206	206	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	270	270	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	some	some	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fuse	fuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
20	join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Adults | 206 bones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
| 2 | **bear** | present · passive |  | babies |  |  |  | with 270 to 300 | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **fuse** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **join** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | present | babies *= baby* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:myths:032-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground.lesson:7`.

**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): R8-pos-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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