Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 14
A slammed door bangs because it hits the frame and pushes the air away suddenly; a soft rubber strip on the frame makes it quieter.
Who acts: slammed door, door, soft rubber strip · What happens: slam, bang, hit, push away, make · To what, where: frame, air
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 (slammed door, door, soft rubber strip), 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 | 3 door | det |
| 2 | slammed | slam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 door | amod |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bangs | nsubj |
| 4 | bangs | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 hits | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hits | nsubj |
| 7 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bangs | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 frame | det |
| 9 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hits | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pushes | cc |
| 11 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hits | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pushes | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 pushes | advmod |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 pushes | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 makes | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 strip | det |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strip | amod |
| 19 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strip | compound |
| 20 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 makes | nsubj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 frame | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 frame | det |
| 23 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strip | nmod |
| 24 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hits | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 makes | obj |
| 26 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 makes | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bangs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slam | participle | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bang | present | a slammed door | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hit | present | door | the frame | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frame=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | push away | present | door not said here | the air | away, suddenly property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | present | a soft rubber strip on the frame | air | quiet property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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: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 ×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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