--- title: The small bones in the fingers and hand break or sprain easily when… — What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth · tree and pragmatics description: The small bones in the fingers and hand break or sprain easily when they punch something. Who acts: small bones, bones. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [What fights cost: bruises, noses and t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth/) / 28 # What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 28 The small bones in the fingers and hand break or sprain easily when they punch something. **Who acts:** small bones, bones · **What happens:** break, sprain, punch · **To what, where:** something This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» of the everyday 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 (small bones, bones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:28 # text = The small bones in the fingers and hand break or sprain easily when they punch something. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 sprain sprain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 easily easily ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 punch punch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | the small bones in the fingers and hand | | | | | easily *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sprain** | present | the small bones in the fingers and hand *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **punch** | present | bones *= bone* | something | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:28`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-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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