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title: A piece of sticky tape on a balloon can let a pin go in without a ba… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: A piece of sticky tape on a balloon can let a pin go in without a bang, because the tape stops the rubber ripping. Who acts: piece, pin, tape. 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 pragm
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# Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 13

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A piece of sticky tape on a balloon can let a pin go in without a bang, because the tape stops the rubber ripping.

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**Who acts:** piece, pin, tape · **What happens:** let, go in, stop · **To what, where:** pin, rubber ripping

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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 (piece, pin, tape), 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:13
# text = A piece of sticky tape on a balloon can let a pin go in without a bang, because the tape stops the rubber ripping.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tape	tape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tape	tape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj
25	ripping	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **let** | can | a piece of sticky tape on a balloon | a pin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go in** | infinitive | a pin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without a bang | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | present | the tape | rubber ripping |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rip=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×2. **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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