Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 12

A balloon bursts at a pin's touch because the tiny hole lets the stretched rubber rip apart in an instant, and the squashed air rushes out all at once.

Who acts: balloon, tiny hole, stretched rubber, squashed air · What happens: burst, let, stretch, rip apart, squash, rush out · To what, where: touch, instant, pin

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 (balloon, tiny hole, stretched rubber, squashed air), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 balloon	det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bursts	nsubj
3	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 touch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pin	det
6	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 pin	case
8	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bursts	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 lets	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hole	amod
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lets	nsubj
13	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bursts	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rubber	det
15	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 rubber	amod
16	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rip	nsubj
17	rip	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lets	xcomp
18	apart	apart	ADV	_	17 rip	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 instant	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 instant	det
21	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rip	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 rushes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rushes	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
25	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 air	amod
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rushes	nsubj
27	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lets	conj
28	out	out	ADV	_	27 rushes	advmod
29	all	all	ADV	_	31 once	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 out	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bursts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burst	present	a balloon		a pin's touch		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at touch=Location
2	let	present	the tiny hole				tree rules
3	stretch	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	rip apart	infinitive	the stretched rubber		a instant		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	squash	participle					vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
6	rush out	present	the squashed air			out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	touch			a pin			nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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:12.

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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