Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 5

A child's bone often breaks like a green twig, bending on one side and cracking on the other; this is called a greenstick fracture.

Who acts: bone · What happens: break, bend, crack, call · To what, where: one side, other, this · 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), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bone	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 child	case
4	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 breaks	advmod
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 twig	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 twig	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 twig	amod
10	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bending	punct
12	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 breaks	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 side	nummod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bending	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cracking	cc
17	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 bending	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cracking	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 called	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 breaks	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fracture	det
26	greenstick	greenstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fracture	compound
27	fracture	fracture	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	present	a child's bone			like a green twig; often property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	bend	gerund	a child's bone not said here		one side		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
3	crack	gerund	a child's bone not said here		the other		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=Location
4	call	present · passive		this			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:5.

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 ×2. 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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