Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 5

Children's bones can crack on one side and bend, called a greenstick break, but they can still break fully and need treatment like adults' bones.

Who acts: bones, one side · What happens: crack, bend, call, break, need · To what, where: one side, greenstick break, treatment · Speech: someone speaks here

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, one side), 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 crack	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 crack	aux
5	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 side	nummod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crack	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bend	cc
10	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crack	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 side	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 break	det
14	greenstick	greenstick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 break	compound
15	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 break	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 break	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 break	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 break	aux
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 break	advmod
21	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crack	conj
22	fully	fully	ADV	_	21 break	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 need	cc
24	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 break	conj
25	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 need	obj
26	like	like	ADP	_	29 bones	case
27	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bones	nmod:poss
28	'	's	PART	_	27 adults	case
29	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 treatment	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crack	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	can	Children's bones		one side			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	bend	infinitive	Children's bones not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle	one side not said here	a greenstick break				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent break=Recipient
4	break	can	bones = bone			still	fully property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	need	present	bones = bone not said here	treatment			like adults's bones	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=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: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): 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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