--- title: You cannot always tell a break by wiggling it, and you do not always… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics description: You cannot always tell a break by wiggling it, and you do not always hear a crack; only an X-ray shows the bone for sure. Who acts: You, X ray. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Snap! Breaking a bone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/) / 2 # Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 2 You cannot always tell a break by wiggling it, and you do not always hear a crack; only an X-ray shows the bone for sure. **Who acts:** You, X ray · **What happens:** not tell, wiggle, not hear, show · **To what, where:** break, crack, bone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (You, X ray), 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:2 # text = You cannot always tell a break by wiggling it, and you do not always hear a crack; only an X-ray shows the bone for sure. # 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 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 5 advmod _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 wiggling wiggle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 16 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 17 advmod _ _ 17 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 X x NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ray ray NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | You | a break | | | | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent break=Recipient | | 2 | **wiggle** | gerund | You *not said here* | break | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **not** **hear** | present · do-support | you | a crack | | | | always *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus | | 4 | **show** | present | a X ray | the bone | | | | for sure | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bone=Recipient | 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. **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:2`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/1/) - next →: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/)