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title: Static shocks from a trampoline can make your hair stand up and give… — Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang · tree and pragmatics
description: Static shocks from a trampoline can make your hair stand up and give a little zap, but they are harmless. Who acts: Static shocks, hair, shocks. A sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang, sentence 14

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Static shocks from a trampoline can make your hair stand up and give a little zap, but they are harmless.

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**Who acts:** Static shocks, hair, shocks · **What happens:** make, stand up, give, be · **To what, where:** hair, little zap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» of the myths 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 (Static shocks, hair, shocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.lesson:14
# text = Static shocks from a trampoline can make your hair stand up and give a little zap, but they are harmless.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 023-petrol-stations-pools-and-things-that-go-bang.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Static	static	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shocks	shock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
13	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	zap	zap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | can | Static shocks from a trampoline | your hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand up** | infinitive | your hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | your hair *not said here* | a little zap |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zap=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | shocks *= shock* |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

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

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