Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels, sentence 14
Very loud sound for a long time damages the tiny hairs in your ears for ever, so people wear earplugs at loud concerts.
Who acts: loud sound, people · What happens: damage, wear · To what, where: tiny hairs, ears, earplugs, loud concerts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» of the physics 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 (loud sound, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 loud | advmod |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | amod |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 damages | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 damages | obl |
| 8 | damages | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hairs | det |
| 10 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hairs | amod |
| 11 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 damages | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 ears | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hairs | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ever | case |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 ears | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wear | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 wear | advmod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wear | nsubj |
| 20 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 damages | parataxis |
| 21 | earplugs | earplug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wear | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 concerts | case |
| 23 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 concerts | amod |
| 24 | concerts | concert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wear | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 damages | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | damage | present | loud sound | the tiny hairs | your ears | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||
| 2 | wear | present | people | earplugs | loud concerts | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent earplug=Source |
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.
Licence: CC 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:physics:018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.lesson:14.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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