Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 9
One X-ray gives a tiny dose, about the same as a few days of natural background radiation; the radiographer who takes X-rays steps behind a screen because they take hundreds a day and the tiny doses would add up.
Who acts: One X ray, radiographer, Bones, tiny doses · What happens: give, take, step, add up · To what, where: tiny dose, X rays, screen, hundreds
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 (One X ray, radiographer, Bones, tiny doses), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ray | nummod |
| 2 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ray | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 X | punct |
| 4 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | nsubj |
| 5 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dose | det |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dose | amod |
| 8 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gives | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 same | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 same | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gives | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 days | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 days | amod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 same | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 radiation | case |
| 18 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 radiation | amod |
| 19 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 radiation | compound |
| 20 | radiation | radiation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 days | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 steps | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 radiographer | det |
| 23 | radiographer | radiographer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 steps | nsubj |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 takes | nsubj |
| 25 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 radiographer | acl:relcl |
| 26 | X | X | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rays | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 X | punct |
| 28 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 takes | obj |
| 29 | steps | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gives | parataxis |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 32 screen | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 screen | det |
| 32 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 steps | obl |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 steps | advcl |
| 36 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 day | det |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 add | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 doses | det |
| 41 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 doses | amod |
| 42 | doses | dose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 add | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 add | aux |
| 44 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 take | conj |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 add | compound:prt |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | One X ray | a tiny dose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the radiographer | X rays | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | ||||
| 3 | step | present | the radiographer | a screen | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind screen=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take | present | Bones = bone | hundreds | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | |||
| 5 | add up speech: assert | would | the tiny doses | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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:9.
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 ×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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