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title: Breaks in many pieces or near a joint may need an operation with pin… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: Breaks in many pieces or near a joint may need an operation with pins, plates or screws, done under anaesthetic (medicine that puts you to sleep so you feel nothing); the metal does not make you magnetic. Who acts: Breaks, medicine, you, metal. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the
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# Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 11

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Breaks in many pieces or near a joint may need an operation with pins, plates or screws, done under anaesthetic (medicine that puts you to sleep so you feel nothing); the metal does not make you magnetic.

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**Who acts:** Breaks, medicine, you, metal · **What happens:** need, do, put, sleep, feel, not make · **To what, where:** operation, anaesthetic, you, nothing

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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 (Breaks, medicine, you, metal), 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:11
# text = Breaks in many pieces or near a joint may need an operation with pins, plates or screws, done under anaesthetic (medicine that puts you to sleep so you feel nothing); the metal does not make you magnetic.
# 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 ×1
1	Breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	screws	screw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anaesthetic	anaesthetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:iobj
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	32	obj	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **need** | may | Breaks in many pieces or a joint | a operation |  |  |  | with pins and plates or screws | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  | a operation *not said here* |  | anaesthetic and medicine |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **put** | present | medicine |  | you |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | medicine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **feel** | present | you | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | the metal | you |  |  |  | magnetic *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |

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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, R7-rel-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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