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title: Scientists have tested many of them, and one doctor even cracked the… — Moving, swimming and sport · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists have tested many of them, and one doctor even cracked the knuckles of only one hand for sixty years to find out; the knuckles on both hands came out the same. Who acts: Scientists, one doctor, knuckles. A sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» of the myths course of Mova's pr
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# Moving, swimming and sport, sentence 3

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Scientists have tested many of them, and one doctor even cracked the knuckles of only one hand for sixty years to find out; the knuckles on both hands came out the same.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, one doctor, knuckles · **What happens:** test, crack, find out, come out · **To what, where:** many, knuckles, same

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving, swimming and sport» 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 (Scientists, one doctor, knuckles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:005-moving-swimming-and-sport.lesson:3
# text = Scientists have tested many of them, and one doctor even cracked the knuckles of only one hand for sixty years to find out; the knuckles on both hands came out the same.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 005-moving-swimming-and-sport.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): no change
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tested	test	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **test** | present · perfect | Scientists | many of things |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 2 | **crack** | past | one doctor | the knuckles of one hand |  |  | year |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knuckle=Theme |
| 3 | **find out** | to-infinitive | one doctor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come out** | past | the knuckles on both hands | the same |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient same=Result |

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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): no change. **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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