Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 4

Ears are delicate: the tiny hair cells inside never grow back, so a ringing in your ears after a bang is a warning that they have been hurt.

Who acts: Ears, tiny hair cells, ringing · What happens: be, not grow back, hurt · To what, where: warning, cells

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 (Ears, tiny hair cells, ringing), 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	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 delicate	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 delicate	cop
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cells	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cells	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	compound
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grow	nsubj
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 cells	advmod
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 grow	advmod
11	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 delicate	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 grow	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 warning	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	25 warning	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ringing	det
16	ringing	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 warning	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 ears	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ringing	nmod
20	after	after	ADP	_	22 bang	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bang	det
22	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ringing	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 warning	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 warning	det
25	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grow	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 hurt	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hurt	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hurt	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 hurt	aux:pass
30	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 warning	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 delicate	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ears		delicate property	tree rules
2	not grow back	present	the tiny hair cells			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	a ringing in your ears after a bang	a warning		tree rules
4	hurt	present · perfect · passive		cells = cell		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:4.

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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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