Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 1

Children's bones are bendier than grown-ups', so they often break like a green twig: bent on one side and cracked on the other.

Who acts: bones · What happens: be, grow, break, bend, crack · To what, where: one side, other

This is a sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bones	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Children	case
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bendier	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bendier	cop
5	bendier	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 ups	case
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ups	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ups	punct
9	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bendier	obl
10	',	',	PART	_	9 ups	case
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 break	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 break	nsubj
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 break	advmod
14	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bendier	parataxis
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 twig	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 twig	det
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 twig	amod
18	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 break	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 bent	punct
20	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 twig	appos
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 side	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 side	nummod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bent	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cracked	cc
25	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bendier	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cracked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bendier	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children's bones		than grown ups; bendy property	tree rules
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	present	Bones = bone		like a green twig; often property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	bend	participle		one side		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
5	crack	past	Children's bones not said here	the other		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=Location

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, 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:medicine:001-snap-breaking-a-bone.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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