--- title: Children's bones are bendier than grown-ups', so they often break li… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics description: Children's bones are bendier than grown-ups', so they often break like a green twig: bent on one side and cracked on the other. Who acts: bones. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/1/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Snap! Breaking a bone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/) / 1 # Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 1 Children's bones are bendier than grown-ups', so they often break like a green twig: bent on one side and cracked on the other. **Who acts:** bones · **What happens:** be, grow, break, bend, crack · **To what, where:** one side, other 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), 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:1 # text = Children's bones are bendier than grown-ups', so they often break like a green twig: bent on one side and cracked on the other. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 bendier bendy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 ', ', PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 bent bend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cracked crack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Children's bones | | | | | than grown ups; bendy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **break** | present | Bones *= bone* | | | | | like a green twig; often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **bend** | participle | | | | one side | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 5 | **crack** | past | Children's bones *not said here* | | | the other | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=Location | 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:medicine:001-snap-breaking-a-bone.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/0/) - next →: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/)