Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 6
Keeping a broken arm still stops the broken ends moving, which hurts and can do more damage.
Who acts: Keeping, broken ends · What happens: keep, break, stop, move, hurt, do · To what, where: broken arm, more damage
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 (Keeping, broken ends), 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 | Keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stops | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 arm | det |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arm | amod |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keeping | obj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 stops | advmod |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ends | det |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ends | amod |
| 9 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 moving | nsubj |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stops | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurts | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 hurts | nsubj |
| 13 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 moving | advcl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hurts | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 damage | amod |
| 18 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | a broken arm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | stop | present | Keeping | still | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | move | gerund | the broken ends | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hurt | present | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | do | can | more damage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality |
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:6.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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