--- title: Bones heal in whatever position they are held in, so doctors line th… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics description: Bones heal in whatever position they are held in, so doctors line the pieces up and hold them still for weeks while new bone grows. Who acts: Bones, position, doctors, new bone. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 3 Bones heal in whatever position they are held in, so doctors line the pieces up and hold them still for weeks while new bone grows. **Who acts:** Bones, position, doctors, new bone · **What happens:** heal, hold in, line up, hold, grow · **To what, where:** position, Bones, pieces 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 (Bones, position, doctors, new bone), 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:3 # text = Bones heal in whatever position they are held in, so doctors line the pieces up and hold them still for weeks while new bone grows. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 heal heal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 whatever whatever DET WDT PronType=Int 5 det _ _ 5 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 in in ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 line line VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **heal** | present | Bones | | | whatever position | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **hold in** | present · passive | whatever position *not said here* | Bones *= bone* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **line up** | present | doctors | the pieces | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme piece=Destination | | 4 | **hold** | present | doctors *not said here* | Bones *= bone* | | | still; week | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | new bone | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/2/) - next →: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/)