--- title: Inside a firecracker a small amount of powder burns in a flash and t… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Inside a firecracker a small amount of powder burns in a flash and turns into a lot of hot gas all at once; the gas bursts outwards and slams the air, and that slam reaches your ears as a crack. Who acts: small amount, gas, slam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small amount, gas, slam), 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:1 # text = Inside a firecracker a small amount of powder burns in a flash and turns into a lot of hot gas all at once; the gas bursts outwards and slams the air, and that slam reaches your ears as a crack. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Inside inside ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 firecracker firecracker NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 obl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 21 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 28 outwards outwards ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 slams slam VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 slam slam NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 crack crack NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | present | a small amount of powder *not said here* | | | a flash | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flash=Location | | 2 | **turn** | present | a small amount of powder *not said here* | all | | a lot of hot gas | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lot=Trajectory | | 3 | **burst** | present | the gas | | | | | outwards *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **slam** | present | the gas *not said here* | the air | | | | | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 5 | **reach** | present | that slam | your ears | | | | as a crack | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 6 | **amount** | | | powder | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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:1`. **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. 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