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title: A jammed finger that looks bent may be broken or dislocated, and pul… — Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and colla… · tree and pragmatics
description: A jammed finger that looks bent may be broken or dislocated, and pulling it straight can damage the bone, joint or nerves more. Who acts: jammed finger, pulling. A sentence of the lesson «Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Broken bones in sport: fingers, wrists and collarbones, sentence 8

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A jammed finger that looks bent may be broken or dislocated, and pulling it straight can damage the bone, joint or nerves more.

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**Who acts:** jammed finger, pulling · **What happens:** jam, look, break, dislocate, pull, damage · **To what, where:** jammed finger, finger, bone

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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 (jammed finger, pulling), 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:8
# text = A jammed finger that looks bent may be broken or dislocated, and pulling it straight can damage the bone, joint or nerves more.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	jammed	jam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dislocated	dislocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jam** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | a jammed finger |  |  |  |  | bent *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **break** | may · passive |  | a jammed finger |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **dislocate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pull** | gerund |  | finger |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **damage** | can | pulling | the bone and joint or nerves |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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