Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 8
A firecracker going off in a hand can break bones and burn flesh, and every year hospitals treat children who lost fingers to fireworks.
Who acts: firecracker, hospitals, children · What happens: go off, break, burn, treat, lose · To what, where: hand, bones, children, fingers
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, hospitals, children), 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 | 9 break | nsubj |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 firecracker | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 going | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | aux |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 break | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flesh | cc |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 break | conj |
| 13 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bones | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 treat | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 treat | cc |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 treat | obl |
| 18 | hospitals | hospital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 treat | nsubj |
| 19 | treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | conj |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 treat | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 children | acl:relcl |
| 23 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lost | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 fireworks | case |
| 25 | fireworks | firework | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | gerund | a firecracker not said here | a hand | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | break | can | a firecracker | bones and flesh | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | burn | infinitive | a firecracker not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | treat | present | hospitals | children | year | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | |||
| 5 | lose | past | children | fingers | to fireworks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Eventuality |
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:8.
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. 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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