--- title: A firecracker bangs because the powder inside burns in a flash, maki… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics description: A firecracker bangs because the powder inside burns in a flash, making a lot of hot gas that shoves the air outwards in one sharp pressure wave. Who acts: firecracker, powder, hot gas. 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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 (firecracker, powder, hot gas), 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:5 # text = A firecracker bangs because the powder inside burns in a flash, making a lot of hot gas that shoves the air outwards in one sharp pressure wave. # 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 firecracker firecracker NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bangs bang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 inside inside ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 shoves shove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 outwards outward ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 26 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bang** | present | a firecracker | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **burn** | present | the powder | | | a flash | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flash=Location | | 3 | **make** | gerund | a firecracker *not said here* | a lot of hot gas | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product | | 4 | **shove** | present | hot gas | the air | | one sharp pressure wave | | outward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent air=Theme in wave=Destination | 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:5`. **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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