--- title: Children's bones are bendier than adults', a bit like a green twig:… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics description: Children's bones are bendier than adults', a bit like a green twig: they can bend and crack on one side only, but they still break and still need a doctor. Who acts: bones. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:048-broken-bones-in-sport-fingers-wrists-and-collarbones.lesson:0 # text = Children's bones are bendier than adults', a bit like a green twig: they can bend and crack on one side only, but they still break and still need a doctor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 048-broken-bones-in-sport-fingers-wrists-and-collarbones.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 bendier bendy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 ', ' PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 bend bend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 crack crack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **is** | present | Children's bones | | | | | than adults; like a green twig; a bit *obl:unmarked*; bendy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bend** | can | bones *= bone* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **crack** | infinitive | bones *= bone* *not said here* | | | one side | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | | 4 | **break** | present | bones *= bone* | | | | still | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **need** | present | bones *= bone* *not said here* | a doctor | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | 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:048-broken-bones-in-sport-fingers-wrists-and-collarbones.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-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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