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title: A broken leg, a bone poking through the skin or heavy bleeding needs… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics
description: A broken leg, a bone poking through the skin or heavy bleeding needs an ambulance, so an adult calls 999 in the UK or 911 in the US. Who acts: bone, broken leg, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 12

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A broken leg, a bone poking through the skin or heavy bleeding needs an ambulance, so an adult calls 999 in the UK or 911 in the US.

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**Who acts:** bone, broken leg, adult · **What happens:** break, poke, need, call · **To what, where:** skin, ambulance, 999, UK · **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 (bone, broken leg, adult), 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:12
# text = A broken leg, a bone poking through the skin or heavy bleeding needs an ambulance, so an adult calls 999 in the UK or 911 in the US.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	999	999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	US	US	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **poke** | gerund | a bone *not said here* |  |  | the skin or heavy bleeding |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through skin=Location |
| 3 | **need** | present | a broken leg and a bone | a ambulance |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ambulance=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present | a adult | 999 |  | the UK |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=Recipient |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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