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title: Where two bones meet there is a joint, such as the knee, the elbow o… — The skeleton and muscles · tree and pragmatics
description: Where two bones meet there is a joint, such as the knee, the elbow or the shoulder, which lets the body bend and turn. Who acts: two bones, joint, elbow, body. 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
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# The skeleton and muscles, sentence 3

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Where two bones meet there is a joint, such as the knee, the elbow or the shoulder, which lets the body bend and turn.

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**Who acts:** two bones, joint, elbow, body · **What happens:** meet, be, let, bend, turn · **To what, where:** body

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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 (two bones, joint, elbow, body), 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:3
# text = Where two bones meet there is a joint, such as the knee, the elbow or the shoulder, which lets the body bend and turn.
# 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	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **meet** | present | two bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | a joint such the knee and the elbow or the shoulder |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | present | the elbow or the shoulder | the body |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bend** | infinitive | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | infinitive | the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:world:031-skeleton-and-muscles.lesson:3`.

**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/).

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