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title: Headphones can block the warning sounds of cars, bikes, horns and al… — Sounds that warn · tree and pragmatics
description: Headphones can block the warning sounds of cars, bikes, horns and alarms. Who acts: Headphones. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sounds that warn, sentence 19

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Headphones can block the warning sounds of cars, bikes, horns and alarms.

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**Who acts:** Headphones · **What happens:** block · **To what, where:** warning sounds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds that warn» 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 (Headphones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:19
# text = Headphones can block the warning sounds of cars, bikes, horns and alarms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 012-sounds-that-warn.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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	block	block	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bikes	bike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	alarms	alarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **block** | can | Headphones | the warning sounds of cars and bikes and horns and alarms |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sound=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:012-sounds-that-warn.lesson:19`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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