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title: Bone heals in stages, a blood clot, then soft new bone called a call… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: Bone heals in stages, a blood clot, then soft new bone called a callus that slowly hardens, which takes several weeks even in children. Who acts: Bone, soft new bone, callus. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 15

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Bone heals in stages, a blood clot, then soft new bone called a callus that slowly hardens, which takes several weeks even in children.

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**Who acts:** Bone, soft new bone, callus · **What happens:** heal, call, harden, take · **To what, where:** stages, callus · **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 (Bone, soft new bone, callus), 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:15
# text = Bone heals in stages, a blood clot, then soft new bone called a callus that slowly hardens, which takes several weeks even in children.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heals	heal	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stages	stage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	clot	clot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	callus	callus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hardens	harden	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | present | Bone |  |  | stages |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | soft new bone *not said here* | a callus |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent callus=Recipient |
| 3 | **harden** | present | a callus |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | present |  |  |  |  | week | in children | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in child=Location |

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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:15`.

**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): R6-punct-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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