Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 13
A piece of sticky tape on a balloon can let a pin go in without a bang, because the tape stops the rubber ripping.
Who acts: piece, pin, tape · What happens: let, go in, stop · To what, where: pin, rubber ripping
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 (piece, pin, tape), 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 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tape | case |
| 4 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tape | amod |
| 5 | tape | tape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 balloon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 balloon | det |
| 8 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tape | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pin | det |
| 12 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 bang | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bang | det |
| 17 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stops | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 stops | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tape | det |
| 21 | tape | tape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stops | nsubj |
| 22 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rubber | det |
| 24 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ripping | compound |
| 25 | ripping | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stops | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | can | a piece of sticky tape on a balloon | a pin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in | infinitive | a pin not said here | without a bang | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | the tape | rubber ripping | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rip=Eventuality |
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:13.
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 ×2. 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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