What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 0
Every sound starts with something wobbling very fast: a guitar string, a drum skin, or the vocal cords in your throat.
Who acts: sound · What happens: start, wobble
This is a sentence of the lesson «What sound is: wobbles in the air» 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 (sound), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 something | case |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 starts | obl |
| 6 | wobbling | wobble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 something | acl |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 6 wobbling | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 string | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 string | det |
| 11 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 string | compound |
| 12 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 skin | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 skin | det |
| 15 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skin | compound |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 string | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cords | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 cords | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cords | det |
| 20 | vocal | vocal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cords | amod |
| 21 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 string | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 throat | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 throat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cords | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | every sound | with something | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with something=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | wobble | gerund | fast property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:physics:017-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air.lesson:0.
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.
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