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title: At A&E, the hospital's emergency department, a triage nurse checks e… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics
description: At A&E, the hospital's emergency department, a triage nurse checks everyone on arrival and the sickest go first, so a long wait means your injury is not the most dangerous one there. Who acts: triage nurse, sickest, long wait, injury. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! Breaking a bone» of the medicine 
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# Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 7

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At A&E, the hospital's emergency department, a triage nurse checks everyone on arrival and the sickest go first, so a long wait means your injury is not the most dangerous one there.

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**Who acts:** triage nurse, sickest, long wait, injury, your · **What happens:** check, go, mean, not be, injure · **To what, where:** A, dangerous one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (triage nurse, sickest, long wait, injury), 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:7
# text = At A&E, the hospital's emergency department, a triage nurse checks everyone on arrival and the sickest go first, so a long wait means your injury is not the most dangerous one there.
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Definite=Ind|PronType=Art
3	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	department	department	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	triage	triage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:parataxis
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sickest	sick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	nsubj	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	ccomp	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | present | a triage nurse | A & E |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present | the sickest |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** | present | a long wait |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | your injury | the dangerous one |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **injure** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom injury «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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:7`.

**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 ×4, R6-punct-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.

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