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title: Bones are hard and strong, but a big force at a bad angle, like land… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: Bones are hard and strong, but a big force at a bad angle, like landing on your hand when you fall off the climbing frame, can crack or snap one. Who acts: Bones, you. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 0

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Bones are hard and strong, but a big force at a bad angle, like landing on your hand when you fall off the climbing frame, can crack or snap one.

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**Who acts:** Bones, you · **What happens:** be, land, fall off, crack, snap · **To what, where:** hand, climbing frame, one

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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 (Bones, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:001-snap-breaking-a-bone.lesson:0
# text = Bones are hard and strong, but a big force at a bad angle, like landing on your hand when you fall off the climbing frame, can crack or snap one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 001-snap-breaking-a-bone.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	angle	angle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	nmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:CD:_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bones |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **land** | gerund |  |  |  | your hand |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on hand=Destination |
| 4 | **fall off** | present | you | the climbing frame |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient frame=Extent |
| 5 | **crack** | can | Bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **snap** | infinitive | Bones *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |

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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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**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:medicine:001-snap-breaking-a-bone.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): R7-rel-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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