--- title: One X-ray gives a tiny dose, about the same as a few days of natural… — Snap! Breaking a bone · tree and pragmatics description: One X-ray gives a tiny dose, about the same as a few days of natural background radiation; the radiographer who takes X-rays steps behind a screen because they take hundreds a day and the tiny doses would add up. Who acts: One X ray, radiographer, Bones, tiny doses. A sentence of the lesson «Snap! B --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Snap! Breaking a bone, sentence 9 One X-ray gives a tiny dose, about the same as a few days of natural background radiation; the radiographer who takes X-rays steps behind a screen because they take hundreds a day and the tiny doses would add up. **Who acts:** One X ray, radiographer, Bones, tiny doses · **What happens:** give, take, step, add up · **To what, where:** tiny dose, X rays, screen, hundreds 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 (One X ray, radiographer, Bones, tiny doses), 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:9 # text = One X-ray gives a tiny dose, about the same as a few days of natural background radiation; the radiographer who takes X-rays steps behind a screen because they take hundreds a day and the tiny doses would add up. # 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 ×1 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 2 X x NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ray ray NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dose dose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 background background NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 radiation radiation NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 radiographer radiographer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 X X NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 30 behind behind ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 36 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 doses dose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 45 up up ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 . . 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 | **give** | present | One X ray | a tiny dose | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme | | 2 | **take** | present | the radiographer | X rays | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | | 3 | **step** | present | the radiographer | | | a screen | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind screen=Trajectory | | 4 | **take** | present | Bones *= bone* | hundreds | | | day | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | | 5 | **add up** *speech: assert* | would | the tiny doses | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:9`. **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 ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/8/) - next →: [Snap! Breaking a bone, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/1-snap-breaking-a-bone/)