Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 5
A firecracker bangs because the powder inside burns in a flash, making a lot of hot gas that shoves the air outwards in one sharp pressure wave.
Who acts: firecracker, powder, hot gas · What happens: bang, burn, make, shove · To what, where: flash, lot, air, one sharp pressure wave
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 (firecracker, powder, hot gas), 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 firecracker | det |
| 2 | firecracker | firecracker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bangs | nsubj |
| 3 | bangs | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 burns | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 powder | det |
| 6 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burns | nsubj |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 powder | advmod |
| 8 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bangs | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 flash | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flash | det |
| 11 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burns | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 bangs | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lot | det |
| 15 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gas | case |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gas | amod |
| 18 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lot | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 shoves | nsubj |
| 20 | shoves | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gas | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shoves | obj |
| 23 | outwards | outward | ADV | _ | 20 shoves | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 wave | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 wave | nummod |
| 26 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wave | amod |
| 27 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wave | compound |
| 28 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shoves | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | bang | present | a firecracker | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | burn | present | the powder | a flash | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flash=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a firecracker not said here | a lot of hot gas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product | ||||
| 4 | shove | present | hot gas | the air | one sharp pressure wave | outward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent air=Theme in wave=Destination |
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:5.
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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