Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 6
A firecracker close to your ears can tear the eardrum or kill the tiny hair cells inside the ear, and those cells never grow back.
Who acts: firecracker, cells · What happens: tear, kill, not grow back · To what, where: eardrum, tiny hair cells, ear
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, cells), 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 | 8 tear | nsubj |
| 3 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 firecracker | amod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ears | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 close | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tear | aux |
| 8 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eardrum | det |
| 10 | eardrum | eardrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tear | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 kill | cc |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tear | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cells | det |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cells | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cells | compound |
| 16 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kill | obj |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 ear | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ear | det |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kill | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grow | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grow | cc |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 cells | det |
| 23 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grow | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 grow | advmod |
| 25 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tear | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 grow | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | can | a firecracker | the eardrum | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location eardrum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | a firecracker not said here | the tiny hair cells | the ear | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme | |||
| 3 | not grow back | present | that cells | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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): 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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