Thinking about noticing, sentence 1

Sound bends around corners and bounces off walls, but light travels in straight lines — so you can hear a car coming round a corner before you can see it.

Who acts: Sound, light, you, car · What happens: bend, bounce off, travel, hear, come round, see · To what, where: corners, walls, straight lines, car, corner

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday 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 (Sound, light, you, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bends	nsubj
2	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 corners	case
4	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bends	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bounces	cc
6	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bends	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	8 walls	case
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bounces	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 travels	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 travels	cc
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 travels	nsubj
12	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bends	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 lines	case
14	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lines	amod
15	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 travels	obl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 hear	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 hear	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	aux
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bends	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 car	det
22	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obj
23	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 car	acl
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 coming	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 corner	det
26	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 coming	obl
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 see	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hear	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend	present	Sound		corners		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around corner=Location
2	bounce off	present	Sound not said here	walls			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Agent
3	travel	present	light		straight lines		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory
4	hear	can	you	a car			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
5	come round	gerund	a car not said here	a corner		round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	can	you	car			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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, 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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:1.

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): R7-rel-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.

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