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title: A firecracker going off in a hand can break bones and burn flesh, an… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: A firecracker going off in a hand can break bones and burn flesh, and every year hospitals treat children who lost fingers to fireworks. Who acts: firecracker, hospitals, children. 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 8

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A firecracker going off in a hand can break bones and burn flesh, and every year hospitals treat children who lost fingers to fireworks.

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**Who acts:** firecracker, hospitals, children · **What happens:** go off, break, burn, treat, lose · **To what, where:** hand, bones, children, fingers

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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, hospitals, children), 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:8
# text = A firecracker going off in a hand can break bones and burn flesh, and every year hospitals treat children who lost fingers to 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 ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound
18	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **go off** | gerund | a firecracker *not said here* |  |  | a hand |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 2 | **break** | can | a firecracker | bones and flesh |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | infinitive | a firecracker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **treat** | present | hospitals |  | children |  | year |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 5 | **lose** | past | children | fingers |  |  |  | to fireworks | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=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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**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:8`.

**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 ×3. **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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