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title: A small child who suddenly will not walk on a leg should be checked… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: A small child who suddenly will not walk on a leg should be checked by a doctor, even after a small fall. Who acts: small child, doctor. 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 clause.
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# Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 16

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A small child who suddenly will not walk on a leg should be checked by a doctor, even after a small fall.

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**Who acts:** small child, doctor · **What happens:** not walk, check · **To what, where:** leg, small child

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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 (small child, 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:16
# text = A small child who suddenly will not walk on a leg should be checked by a doctor, even after a small fall.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **not** **walk** | future | a small child |  |  | a leg |  | suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 2 | **check** | should · passive | a doctor | a small child |  |  | after a small fall |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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**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): no change. **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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