--- title: Keeping a broken arm still stops the broken ends moving, which hurts… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics description: Keeping a broken arm still stops the broken ends moving, which hurts and can do more damage. Who acts: Keeping, broken ends. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 6 Keeping a broken arm still stops the broken ends moving, which hurts and can do more damage. **Who acts:** Keeping, broken ends · **What happens:** keep, break, stop, move, hurt, do · **To what, where:** broken arm, more damage 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 (Keeping, broken ends), 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:6 # text = Keeping a broken arm still stops the broken ends moving, which hurts and can do more damage. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 ends end NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl:relcl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 damage damage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 . . 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 | **keep** | gerund | | a broken arm | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 2 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stop** | present | Keeping | | | | still | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **move** | gerund | the broken ends | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hurt** | present | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **do** | can | | more damage | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/5/) - next →: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/)