Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 2
Close up, that slam is strong enough to hurt: it hits your eardrum with a sudden hard push, and in someone's hand the hot gas can break bones and burn skin, which is why only trained adults handle fireworks.
Who acts: you, slam, hot gas, trained adults · What happens: close up, be, hurt, hit, break, burn · To what, where: eardrum, bones, hand, skin, fireworks
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 (you, slam, hot gas, trained adults), 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 | Close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Close | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 strong | punct |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 slam | det |
| 5 | slam | slam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strong | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 strong | cop |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Close | conj |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 strong | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hurt | mark |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 strong | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 hits | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hits | nsubj |
| 13 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Close | conj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eardrum | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eardrum | eardrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hits | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 push | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 push | det |
| 18 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 push | amod |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 push | amod |
| 20 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hits | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 break | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 break | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 24 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 someone | case |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 break | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gas | det |
| 28 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gas | amod |
| 29 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 break | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 break | aux |
| 31 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hits | conj |
| 32 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 break | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 burn | cc |
| 34 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 break | conj |
| 35 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 burn | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 why | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 why | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 why | cop |
| 39 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 handle | advmod |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 trained | advmod |
| 41 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 adults | amod |
| 42 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 handle | nsubj |
| 43 | handle | handle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 break | advcl |
| 44 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 handle | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Close | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close up | imperative | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that slam | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | to-infinitive | that slam not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hit | present | slam | your eardrum | with a sudden hard push | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eardrum=Patient with push=Instrument | |||
| 5 | break | can | the hot gas | bones | someone's hand | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient | |||
| 6 | burn | infinitive | the hot gas not said here | skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | handle | present | trained adults | fireworks | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Theme |
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:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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