Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 0

Children's bones are bendier than adults', a bit like a green twig: they can bend and crack on one side only, but they still break and still need a doctor.

Who acts: bones · What happens: be, bend, crack, break, need · To what, where: one side, doctor

This is a sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» 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), 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bones	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Children	case
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bendier	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bendier	cop
5	bendier	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 adults	case
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bendier	obl
8	',	'	PART	_	7 adults	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bendier	obl:unmarked
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 twig	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 twig	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 twig	amod
14	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bendier	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 bend	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bend	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bend	aux
18	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bendier	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crack	cc
20	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bend	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 side	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 side	nummod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 crack	obl
24	only	only	ADV	_	20 crack	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 break	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 break	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 break	nsubj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 break	advmod
29	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bend	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 need	cc
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 need	advmod
32	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 break	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 doctor	det
34	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 need	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bendier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children's bones				than adults; like a green twig; a bit obl:unmarked; bendy property	tree rules
2	bend	can	bones = bone					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	crack	infinitive	bones = bone not said here		one side			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
4	break	present	bones = bone			still		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	need	present	bones = bone not said here	a doctor		still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=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:048-broken-bones-in-sport-fingers-wrists-and-collarbones.lesson:0.

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, R8-pos-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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