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title: A just-healed bone is weaker than normal, so contact sports and tram… — The cast: itching, signing and the saw · tree and pragmatics
description: A just-healed bone is weaker than normal, so contact sports and trampolines wait a few weeks after the cast comes off. Who acts: healed bone, contact sports, cast. A sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The cast: itching, signing and the saw, sentence 16

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A just-healed bone is weaker than normal, so contact sports and trampolines wait a few weeks after the cast comes off.

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**Who acts:** healed bone, contact sports, cast · **What happens:** heal, be, wait, come off

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The cast: itching, signing and the saw» 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 (healed bone, contact sports, cast), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.lesson:16
# text = A just-healed bone is weaker than normal, so contact sports and trampolines wait a few weeks after the cast comes off.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 002-the-cast-itching-signing-and-the-saw.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	trampolines	trampoline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advcl
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a healed bone |  |  |  |  | than normal; weak *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | present | contact sports and trampolines |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come off** | present | the cast |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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. **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/).

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