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title: If the broken ends have slid out of place, the doctor gives strong p… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: If the broken ends have slid out of place, the doctor gives strong pain relief and pulls the bone back into line; this is called reducing a fracture. Who acts: broken ends, doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 10

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If the broken ends have slid out of place, the doctor gives strong pain relief and pulls the bone back into line; this is called reducing a fracture.

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**Who acts:** broken ends, doctor · **What happens:** break, slide, give, pull back, call, reduce · **To what, where:** place, strong pain relief, bone, line, this, fracture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (broken ends, doctor), 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:10
# text = If the broken ends have slid out of place, the doctor gives strong pain relief and pulls the bone back into line; this is called reducing a fracture.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	slid	slide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	reducing	reduce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fracture	fracture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 | **slide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | the broken ends |  |  | place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **give** | present | the doctor | strong pain relief |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=Theme |
| 4 | **pull back** | present | the doctor *not said here* | the bone |  | line |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
| 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **reduce** | gerund |  | a fracture |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fracture=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

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