Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 2

You cannot always tell a break by wiggling it, and you do not always hear a crack; only an X-ray shows the bone for sure.

Who acts: You, X ray · What happens: not tell, wiggle, not hear, show · To what, where: break, crack, bone · 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 (You, X ray), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 break	det
7	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 wiggling	mark
9	wiggling	wiggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tell	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wiggling	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hear	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hear	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hear	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 hear	advmod
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 hear	advmod
17	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crack	det
19	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hear	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	25 ray	advmod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ray	det
23	X	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ray	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 X	punct
25	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shows	nsubj
26	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bone	det
28	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shows	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 sure	case
30	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shows	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	can	You	a break	always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent break=Recipient
2	wiggle	gerund	You not said here	break		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not hear	present · do-support	you	a crack	always property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus
4	show	present	a X ray	the bone	for sure	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bone=Recipient

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:2.

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): no change. 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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