Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 15

Bone heals in stages, a blood clot, then soft new bone called a callus that slowly hardens, which takes several weeks even in children.

Who acts: Bone, soft new bone, callus · What happens: heal, call, harden, take · To what, where: stages, callus · 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 (Bone, soft new bone, callus), 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	Bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heals	nsubj
2	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 stages	case
4	stages	stage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heals	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clot	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clot	det
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clot	compound
8	clot	clot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heals	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bone	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 bone	advmod
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bone	amod
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bone	amod
13	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clot	conj
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bone	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 callus	det
16	callus	callus	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hardens	nsubj
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	19 hardens	advmod
19	hardens	harden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 callus	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 takes	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 takes	nsubj
22	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hardens	conj
23	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 weeks	amod
24	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 takes	obj
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 children	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 children	case
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 takes	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heals	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	present	Bone		stages			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	call	participle	soft new bone not said here	a callus				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent callus=Recipient
3	harden	present	a callus				slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	take	present				week	in children	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in child=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:15.

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): R6-punct-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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