--- title: The skeleton holds you up, gives your body its shape and protects so… — The skeleton and muscles · tree and pragmatics description: The skeleton holds you up, gives your body its shape and protects soft parts: the skull guards the brain and the ribs guard the heart and lungs. Who acts: skeleton, skull, ribs. 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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 (skeleton, skull, ribs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:031-skeleton-and-muscles.lesson:1 # text = The skeleton holds you up, gives your body its shape and protects soft parts: the skull guards the brain and the ribs guard the heart and lungs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 031-skeleton-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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 guard guard VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | present | the skeleton | you | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | the skeleton *not said here* | skeleton's shape | your body | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient shape=Theme | | 3 | **protect** | present | the skeleton *not said here* | soft parts | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Beneficiary | | 4 | **guard** | present | the skull | the brain | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Beneficiary | | 5 | **guard** | present | the ribs | the heart and lungs | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Beneficiary | 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:world:031-skeleton-and-muscles.lesson:1`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The skeleton and muscles, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/0/) - next →: [The skeleton and muscles, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/)