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title: A firecracker close to your ears can tear the eardrum or kill the ti… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: A firecracker close to your ears can tear the eardrum or kill the tiny hair cells inside the ear, and those cells never grow back. Who acts: firecracker, cells. A sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 6

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A firecracker close to your ears can tear the eardrum or kill the tiny hair cells inside the ear, and those cells never grow back.

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**Who acts:** firecracker, cells · **What happens:** tear, kill, not grow back · **To what, where:** eardrum, tiny hair cells, ear

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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 (firecracker, cells), 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:6
# text = A firecracker close to your ears can tear the eardrum or kill the tiny hair cells inside the ear, and those cells never grow back.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **tear** | can | a firecracker | the eardrum |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location eardrum=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | infinitive | a firecracker *not said here* | the tiny hair cells |  | the ear |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **grow back** | present | that cells |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:6`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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