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title: Close up, that slam is strong enough to hurt: it hits your eardrum w… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Close up, that slam is strong enough to hurt: it hits your eardrum with a sudden hard push, and in someone's hand the hot gas can break bones and burn skin, which is why only trained adults handle fireworks. Who acts: you, slam, hot gas, trained adults. A sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sound
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# Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 2

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Close up, that slam is strong enough to hurt: it hits your eardrum with a sudden hard push, and in someone's hand the hot gas can break bones and burn skin, which is why only trained adults handle fireworks.

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**Who acts:** you, slam, hot gas, trained adults · **What happens:** close up, be, hurt, hit, break, burn · **To what, where:** eardrum, bones, hand, skin, fireworks

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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 (you, slam, hot gas, trained adults), 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:2
# text = Close up, that slam is strong enough to hurt: it hits your eardrum with a sudden hard push, and in someone's hand the hot gas can break bones and burn skin, which is why only trained adults handle fireworks.
# 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	Close	close	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	slam	slam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
19	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
32	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
40	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	handle	handle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
44	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **close up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | that slam |  |  |  |  | enough, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | that slam *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hit** | present | slam | your eardrum |  |  |  | with a sudden hard push | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eardrum=Patient with push=Instrument |
| 5 | **break** | can | the hot gas | bones |  | someone's hand |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
| 6 | **burn** | infinitive | the hot gas *not said here* | skin |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **handle** | present | trained adults | fireworks |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firework=Theme |

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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.

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