Thinking about noticing, sentence 13
Sound waves bend around corners and bounce off walls; light travels in straight lines.
Who acts: Sound waves, light · What happens: bend, bounce off, travel · To what, where: corners, walls, straight lines
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 waves, light), 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 waves | compound |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bend | nsubj |
| 3 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 corners | case |
| 5 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bend | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bounce | cc |
| 7 | bounce | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bend | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 walls | case |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bounce | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 bend | punct |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travels | nsubj |
| 12 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bend | parataxis |
| 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 | _ | 3 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | Sound waves | corners | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | bounce off | present | Sound waves 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 |
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:13.
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.
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