Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 11
Breaks in many pieces or near a joint may need an operation with pins, plates or screws, done under anaesthetic (medicine that puts you to sleep so you feel nothing); the metal does not make you magnetic.
Who acts: Breaks, medicine, you, metal · What happens: need, do, put, sleep, feel, not make · To what, where: operation, anaesthetic, you, nothing
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 (Breaks, medicine, you, metal), 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 | Breaks | break | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 need | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 pieces | case |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pieces | amod |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Breaks | nmod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 joint | cc |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 joint | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joint | det |
| 8 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | conj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 need | aux |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 operation | det |
| 12 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pins | case |
| 14 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 operation | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plates | punct |
| 16 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pins | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 screws | cc |
| 18 | screws | screw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pins | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 operation | acl:relcl |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 anaesthetic | case |
| 22 | anaesthetic | anaesthetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 done | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 medicine | punct |
| 24 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 anaesthetic | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 puts | nsubj |
| 26 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 puts | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sleep | mark |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 puts | advcl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 feel | advmod |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 feel | nsubj |
| 32 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 need | advcl |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 feel | obj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 nothing | punct |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 make | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 metal | det |
| 37 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 make | nsubj |
| 38 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 make | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 make | advmod |
| 40 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | parataxis |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 make | obj |
| 42 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 make | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | may | Breaks in many pieces or a joint | a operation | with pins and plates or screws | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | participle | a operation not said here | anaesthetic and medicine | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put | present | medicine | you | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | medicine not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feel | present | you | nothing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not make | present · do-support | the metal | you | magnetic property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=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, 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:11.
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 ×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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