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title: A jammed finger should not be pulled hard; one that looks bent or wi… — Sprains, strains and bruises · tree and pragmatics
description: A jammed finger should not be pulled hard; one that looks bent or will not straighten needs an X-ray. Who acts: one. A sentence of the lesson «Sprains, strains and bruises» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sprains, strains and bruises, sentence 14

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A jammed finger should not be pulled hard; one that looks bent or will not straighten needs an X-ray.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** jam, not pull, look, not straighten, need · **To what, where:** jammed finger, X ray

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sprains, strains and bruises» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.lesson:14
# text = A jammed finger should not be pulled hard; one that looks bent or will not straighten needs an X-ray.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	jammed	jam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	straighten	straighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **jam** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **pull** | should · passive |  | a jammed finger |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present |  |  |  |  |  | bent *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **straighten** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **need** | present | one | a X ray |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ray=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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**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:003-sprains-strains-and-bruises.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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