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title: A bang is one sudden, hard shove on the air: instead of a gentle wob… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: A bang is one sudden, hard shove on the air: instead of a gentle wobble, the air is pushed out all at once in a single sharp wave. Who acts: bang. A sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 0

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A bang is one sudden, hard shove on the air: instead of a gentle wobble, the air is pushed out all at once in a single sharp wave.

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**Who acts:** bang · **What happens:** be, push out · **To what, where:** one sudden hard shove, air, single sharp wave

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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 (bang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:019-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears.lesson:0
# text = A bang is one sudden, hard shove on the air: instead of a gentle wobble, the air is pushed out all at once in a single sharp wave.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 019-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shove	shove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wobble	wobble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## 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 | a bang | one sudden hard shove |  | the air |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **push out** | present · passive |  | the air |  | a single sharp wave |  | instead a gentle wobble | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme at once=Trajectory |

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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:physics:019-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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