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title: A coach's check list for a break: heard a crack, the limb looks out… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics
description: A coach's check list for a break: heard a crack, the limb looks out of shape, you can't use it, pain right on the bone, or swelling fast; even one or two of these means a doctor should look. Who acts: limb, you, one, doctor. A sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collar
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# Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 2

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A coach's check list for a break: heard a crack, the limb looks out of shape, you can't use it, pain right on the bone, or swelling fast; even one or two of these means a doctor should look.

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**Who acts:** limb, you, one, doctor, coach · **What happens:** hear, look out, not use, swell, mean, look · **To what, where:** crack, shape, break, bone · **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 (limb, you, one, 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:2
# text = A coach's check list for a break: heard a crack, the limb looks out of shape, you can't use it, pain right on the bone, or swelling fast; even one or two of these means a doctor should look.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
35	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nsubj	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	nmod	_	_
43	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	ccomp	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past |  | a crack |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crack=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look out** | present | the limb | shape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **use** | can | you | break |  | the bone |  | pain *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **swell** | gerund | the limb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **mean** | present | one of these |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **look** | should | a doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **list** |  | a coach |  |  |  |  | for a break | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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