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title: Loud sound for a long time can damage hearing for life, and the dama… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: Loud sound for a long time can damage hearing for life, and the damage cannot be repaired. Who acts: Loud sound. A sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 17

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Loud sound for a long time can damage hearing for life, and the damage cannot be repaired.

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**Who acts:** Loud sound · **What happens:** damage, not repair · **To what, where:** hearing, damage

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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 (Loud sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:17
# text = Loud sound for a long time can damage hearing for life, and the damage cannot be repaired.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advmod
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** | can | Loud sound for a long time | hearing |  |  |  | for life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **repair** | can · passive |  | the damage |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.lesson:17`.

**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 ×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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