--- title: A jumper crackles and sparks in the dark when you take it off, becau… — Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks · tree and pragmatics description: A jumper crackles and sparks in the dark when you take it off, because rubbing fabrics build up charge and each crackle is a tiny spark. Who acts: jumper, you, rubbing fabrics, crackle. A sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics course of Mova's primary s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Static electricity: balloons, hair and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/) / 10 # Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks, sentence 10 A jumper crackles and sparks in the dark when you take it off, because rubbing fabrics build up charge and each crackle is a tiny spark. **Who acts:** jumper, you, rubbing fabrics, crackle · **What happens:** crackle, spark, take off, rub, build up, be · **To what, where:** dark, jumper, charge, tiny spark This is a sentence of the lesson «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» 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 (jumper, you, rubbing fabrics, crackle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:10 # text = A jumper crackles and sparks in the dark when you take it off, because rubbing fabrics build up charge and each crackle is a tiny spark. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jumper jumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 crackles crackle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 sparks spark VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 rubbing rub VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 fabrics fabric NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 crackle crackle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crackle** | present | a jumper | | | the dark | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location | | 2 | **spark** | present | a jumper *not said here* | | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **take off** | present | you | jumper | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **rub** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **build up** | present | rubbing fabrics | charge and a tiny spark | | | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer charge=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | each crackle | a tiny spark | | | | | tree rules | 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:026-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks.lesson:10`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Static electricity: balloons, hair and…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/9/) - next →: [Static electricity: balloons, hair and…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/)