Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 3

Bones heal in whatever position they are held in, so doctors line the pieces up and hold them still for weeks while new bone grows.

Who acts: Bones, position, doctors, new bone · What happens: heal, hold in, line up, hold, grow · To what, where: position, Bones, pieces

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, position, doctors, new bone), 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	Bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heal	nsubj
2	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 position	case
4	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	5 position	det
5	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heal	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 held	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 held	aux:pass
8	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 position	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 held	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 line	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 line	advmod
12	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 line	nsubj
13	line	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heal	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pieces	det
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 line	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	13 line	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hold	cc
18	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 line	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hold	obj
20	still	still	ADV	_	18 hold	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 weeks	case
22	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hold	obl:unmarked
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 grows	mark
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bone	amod
25	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grows	nsubj
26	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hold	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	heal	present	Bones		whatever position		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hold in	present · passive	whatever position not said here	Bones = bone			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	line up	present	doctors	the pieces			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Destination
4	hold	present	doctors not said here	Bones = bone		still; week	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	grow	present	new bone				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:3.

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 ×2, 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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