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title: A slammed door bangs because it hits the frame and pushes the air aw… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: A slammed door bangs because it hits the frame and pushes the air away suddenly; a soft rubber strip on the frame makes it quieter. Who acts: slammed door, door, soft rubber strip. A sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics course of Mova's primary school 
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# Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 14

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A slammed door bangs because it hits the frame and pushes the air away suddenly; a soft rubber strip on the frame makes it quieter.

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**Who acts:** slammed door, door, soft rubber strip · **What happens:** slam, bang, hit, push away, make · **To what, where:** frame, air

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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 (slammed door, door, soft rubber strip), 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:14
# text = A slammed door bangs because it hits the frame and pushes the air away suddenly; a soft rubber strip on the frame makes it quieter.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	slammed	slam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bangs	bang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **slam** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bang** | present | a slammed door |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | present | door | the frame |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frame=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **push away** | present | door *not said here* | the air |  |  |  | away, suddenly *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | a soft rubber strip on the frame | air |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:14`.

**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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