--- title: Bones are alive: they grow, they mend when they break, and inside ma… — The skeleton and muscles · tree and pragmatics description: Bones are alive: they grow, they mend when they break, and inside many of them soft marrow makes new blood cells. Who acts: Bones, soft marrow. A sentence of the lesson «The skeleton and muscles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [The skeleton and muscles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/) / 2 # The skeleton and muscles, sentence 2 Bones are alive: they grow, they mend when they break, and inside many of them soft marrow makes new blood cells. **Who acts:** Bones, soft marrow · **What happens:** be, grow, mend, break, make · **To what, where:** new blood cells, many This is a sentence of the lesson «The skeleton and muscles» of the world 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 (Bones, soft marrow), 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:2 # text = Bones are alive: they grow, they mend when they break, and inside many of them soft marrow makes new blood cells. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 mend mend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 15 inside inside ADP IN _ 16 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 marrow marrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 . . 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 | **is** | present | Bones | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | bones *= bone* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mend** | present | bones *= bone* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **break** | present | bones *= bone* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **make** | present | soft marrow | new blood cells | | many of bones | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cell=Product | 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:2`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [The skeleton and muscles, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/1/) - next →: [The skeleton and muscles, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/31-skeleton-and-muscles/)