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title: A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals bad… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extr… · tree and pragmatics
description: A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals badly that bone may grow less. Who acts: broken growth plate, care, bone, doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby, sentence 14

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A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals badly that bone may grow less.

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**Who acts:** broken growth plate, care, bone, doctor · **What happens:** break, need, heal, grow, care · **To what, where:** care

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» of the biology 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 (broken growth plate, care, bone, doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby.lesson:14
# text = A broken growth plate needs a doctor's care, because if it heals badly that bone may grow less.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heals	heal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
15	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
20	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | a broken growth plate | a doctor's care |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme |
| 3 | **heal** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | care |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | may | that bone |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **care** |  | a doctor |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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