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title: Many broken little toes heal at home, but a broken big toe, a toe ou… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many broken little toes heal at home, but a broken big toe, a toe out of shape or one that won't stop hurting should be checked. Who acts: Many broken little toes. A sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 16

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Many broken little toes heal at home, but a broken big toe, a toe out of shape or one that won't stop hurting should be checked.

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**Who acts:** Many broken little toes · **What happens:** break, heal, not stop, hurt, check · **To what, where:** home, broken big toe

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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 (Many broken little toes), 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:16
# text = Many broken little toes heal at home, but a broken big toe, a toe out of shape or one that won't stop hurting should be checked.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heal	heal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	conj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	xcomp	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **heal** | present | Many broken little toes |  |  | home |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **stop** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hurt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **check** | should · passive |  | a broken big toe and a toe out shape |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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

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