Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 1

Inside a firecracker a small amount of powder burns in a flash and turns into a lot of hot gas all at once; the gas bursts outwards and slams the air, and that slam reaches your ears as a crack.

Who acts: small amount, gas, slam · What happens: burn, turn, burst, slam, reach, amount · To what, where: flash, all, lot, air, ears, powder

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» 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 (small amount, gas, slam), 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	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 firecracker	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 firecracker	det
3	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 amount	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 amount	amod
6	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 firecracker	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 powder	case
8	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 amount	nmod
9	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 amount	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 flash	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 flash	det
12	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burns	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turns	cc
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 burns	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 lot	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lot	det
17	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turns	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 gas	case
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gas	amod
20	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lot	nmod
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 turns	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 all	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 bursts	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gas	det
26	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bursts	nsubj
27	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 burns	parataxis
28	outwards	outwards	ADV	_	27 bursts	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 slams	cc
30	slams	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 bursts	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 air	det
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slams	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 reaches	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 reaches	cc
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 slam	det
36	slam	slam	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reaches	nsubj
37	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 burns	conj
38	your	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 ears	nmod:poss
39	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 reaches	obj
40	as	as	ADP	_	42 crack	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 crack	det
42	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reaches	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 burns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burn	present	a small amount of powder not said here		a flash		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flash=Location
2	turn	present	a small amount of powder not said here	all	a lot of hot gas		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lot=Trajectory
3	burst	present	the gas			outwards property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	slam	present	the gas not said here	the air			vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
5	reach	present	that slam	your ears		as a crack	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
6	amount			powder			nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:019-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears.lesson:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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