Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 10
Dogs and cats hide on fireworks night because their hearing is far more sensitive than ours and they do not understand the sudden bangs.
Who acts: Dogs, hearing · What happens: hide, be, not understand, hear · To what, where: sudden bangs
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 (Dogs, hearing), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cats | cc |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dogs | conj |
| 4 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 night | compound |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hide | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 sensitive | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hearing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sensitive | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sensitive | cop |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 sensitive | advmod |
| 14 | sensitive | sensitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hide | advcl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 ours | case |
| 16 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sensitive | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 understand | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 understand | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 understand | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 understand | advmod |
| 21 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sensitive | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bangs | det |
| 23 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bangs | amod |
| 24 | bangs | bang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 understand | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Dogs and cats | night | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Dogs's hearing | than ours; sensitive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not understand | present · do-support | Dogs = dog | the sudden bangs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bang=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | Dogs = dog | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:10.
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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