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title: Doors are heavy levers: the hinge side crushes fingers, slammed door… — Baths, water at home and doors · tree and pragmatics
description: Doors are heavy levers: the hinge side crushes fingers, slammed doors trap hands and break glass, and fire doors hold back smoke. Who acts: Doors, hinge side, slammed doors, fire doors. A sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Baths, water at home and doors, sentence 2

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Doors are heavy levers: the hinge side crushes fingers, slammed doors trap hands and break glass, and fire doors hold back smoke.

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**Who acts:** Doors, hinge side, slammed doors, fire doors · **What happens:** be, crush, slam, trap, break, hold back · **To what, where:** heavy levers, fingers, hands, glass, smoke

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday 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 (Doors, hinge side, slammed doors, fire doors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.lesson:2
# text = Doors are heavy levers: the hinge side crushes fingers, slammed doors trap hands and break glass, and fire doors hold back smoke.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 109-baths-water-and-doors.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	crushes	crush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
12	slammed	slam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl
13	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	trap	trap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Doors | heavy levers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crush** | present | the hinge side | fingers |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 3 | **slam** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **trap** | present | slammed doors | hands |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 5 | **break** | present | slammed doors *not said here* | glass |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient |
| 6 | **hold back** | present | fire doors | smoke |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:109-baths-water-and-doors.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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