Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 10
If the broken ends have slid out of place, the doctor gives strong pain relief and pulls the bone back into line; this is called reducing a fracture.
Who acts: broken ends, doctor · What happens: break, slide, give, pull back, call, reduce · To what, where: place, strong pain relief, bone, line, this, fracture · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (broken ends, doctor), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 slid | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ends | det |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ends | amod |
| 4 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slid | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 slid | aux |
| 6 | slid | slide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 gives | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gives | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doctor | det |
| 12 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gives | nsubj |
| 13 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | parataxis |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 relief | amod |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 relief | compound |
| 16 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gives | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pulls | cc |
| 18 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gives | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bone | det |
| 20 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulls | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 pulls | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 line | case |
| 23 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulls | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gives | punct |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 28 | reducing | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 called | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fracture | det |
| 30 | fracture | fracture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reducing | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | slide a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | the broken ends | place | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | give | present | the doctor | strong pain relief | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull back | present | the doctor not said here | the bone | line | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 5 | call speech: assert | present · passive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | reduce | gerund | a fracture | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fracture=Patient |
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:10.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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