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title: Growth plates near the ends of children's long bones make new bone;… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: Growth plates near the ends of children's long bones make new bone; most growth plate breaks heal completely, and doctors often check them again later. Who acts: Growth plates, most plate breaks, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 14

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Growth plates near the ends of children's long bones make new bone; most growth plate breaks heal completely, and doctors often check them again later.

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**Who acts:** Growth plates, most plate breaks, doctors · **What happens:** make, heal, check · **To what, where:** new bone, Bones

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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 (Growth plates, most plate breaks, doctors), 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:14
# text = Growth plates near the ends of children's long bones make new bone; most growth plate breaks heal completely, and doctors often check them again later.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	breaks	break	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis
19	heal	heal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	later	late	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **make** | present | Growth plates near the ends of children's long bones | new bone |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bone=Product |
| 2 | **heal** | present | most plate breaks |  |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **check** | present | doctors | Bones *= bone* |  |  | again | late, often *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:14`.

**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, 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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