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title: A firework that did not go off can still explode later, so you never… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: A firework that did not go off can still explode later, so you never go back to a lit firework; you leave it and tell an adult. Who acts: firework, you. A sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 9

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A firework that did not go off can still explode later, so you never go back to a lit firework; you leave it and tell an adult.

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**Who acts:** firework, you · **What happens:** not go off, explode, not go back, leave, tell · **To what, where:** firecracker, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (firework, you), 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:9
# text = A firework that did not go off can still explode later, so you never go back to a lit firework; you leave it and tell an adult.
# 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	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	explode	explode	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	firework	firework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **go off** | past · do-support | a firework |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **explode** | can | a firework |  |  |  | still | late *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **go back** | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  | to a lit firework *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to firework=Result |
| 4 | **leave** | present | you | firecracker |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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