--- title: A child's bone often breaks like a green twig, bending on one side a… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics description: A child's bone often breaks like a green twig, bending on one side and cracking on the other; this is called a greenstick fracture. Who acts: bone. 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 cl --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 5 A child's bone often breaks like a green twig, bending on one side and cracking on the other; this is called a greenstick fracture. **Who acts:** bone · **What happens:** break, bend, crack, call · **To what, where:** one side, other, this · **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 (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:5 # text = A child's bone often breaks like a green twig, bending on one side and cracking on the other; this is called a greenstick fracture. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bending bend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 cracking crack VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 greenstick greenstick NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 27 fracture fracture NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | present | a child's bone | | | | | like a green twig; often *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **bend** | gerund | a child's bone *not said here* | | | one side | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | | 3 | **crack** | gerund | a child's bone *not said here* | | | the other | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=Location | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:5`. **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 ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/4/) - next →: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/)