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title: Children's bones can crack on one side and bend, called a greenstick… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children's bones can crack on one side and bend, called a greenstick break, but they can still break fully and need treatment like adults' bones. Who acts: bones, one side. A sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» of the medicine course of Mova's primary scho
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# Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 5

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Children's bones can crack on one side and bend, called a greenstick break, but they can still break fully and need treatment like adults' bones.

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**Who acts:** bones, one side · **What happens:** crack, bend, call, break, need · **To what, where:** one side, greenstick break, treatment · **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 (bones, one side), 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:5
# text = Children's bones can crack on one side and bend, called a greenstick break, but they can still break fully and need treatment like adults' bones.
# 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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	greenstick	greenstick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	'	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **crack** | can | Children's bones |  |  | one side |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
| 2 | **bend** | infinitive | Children's bones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle | one side *not said here* | a greenstick break |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent break=Recipient |
| 4 | **break** | can | bones *= bone* |  |  |  | still | fully *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **need** | present | bones *= bone* *not said here* | treatment |  |  |  | like adults's bones | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot treatment=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): 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.

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