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title: The collarbone often breaks from a fall on the shoulder, and most br… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics
description: The collarbone often breaks from a fall on the shoulder, and most broken collarbones are treated with a sling, not a cast. Who acts: collarbone. 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 
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# Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 11

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The collarbone often breaks from a fall on the shoulder, and most broken collarbones are treated with a sling, not a cast.

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**Who acts:** collarbone · **What happens:** break, treat · **To what, where:** broken collarbones

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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 (collarbone), 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:11
# text = The collarbone often breaks from a fall on the shoulder, and most broken collarbones are treated with a sling, not a cast.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collarbone	collarbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	collarbones	collarbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sling	sling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **break** | present | the collarbone |  |  |  |  | from a fall on the shoulder; often *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from fall=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **treat** | present · passive |  | broken collarbones |  |  |  | with a sling and a cast | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with sling=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:048-broken-bones-in-sport-fingers-wrists-and-collarbones.lesson:11`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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