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title: Someone who may need an operation should not eat or drink until a do… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Someone who may need an operation should not eat or drink until a doctor says so. Who acts: Someone, doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 10

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Someone who may need an operation should not eat or drink until a doctor says so.

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**Who acts:** Someone, doctor · **What happens:** need, not eat, drink, say · **To what, where:** operation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» 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 (Someone, doctor), 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:10
# text = Someone who may need an operation should not eat or drink until a doctor says so.
# 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): no change
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **need** | may |  | a operation |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot operation=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **eat** | should | Someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** | infinitive | Someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:048-broken-bones-in-sport-fingers-wrists-and-collarbones.lesson:10`.

**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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