--- title: A balloon bursts at a pin's touch because the tiny hole lets the str… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics description: A balloon bursts at a pin's touch because the tiny hole lets the stretched rubber rip apart in an instant, and the squashed air rushes out all at once. Who acts: balloon, tiny hole, stretched rubber, squashed air. 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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 (balloon, tiny hole, stretched rubber, squashed air), 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:12 # text = A balloon bursts at a pin's touch because the tiny hole lets the stretched rubber rip apart in an instant, and the squashed air rushes out all at once. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rip rip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 18 apart apart ADV RB _ 17 xcomp _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 28 out out ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 28 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **burst** | present | a balloon | | | a pin's touch | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at touch=Location | | 2 | **let** | present | the tiny hole | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stretch** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **rip apart** | infinitive | the stretched rubber | | | a instant | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **squash** | participle | | | | | | | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **rush out** | present | the squashed air | | | | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **touch** | | | a pin | | | | | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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:12`. **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): no change. **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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