What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 11
Hard bare walls bounce sound back, while soft curtains, carpets and sofas soak it up, so a furnished room hardly echoes.
Who acts: Hard bare walls, soft curtains, furnished room · What happens: bounce back, soak up, furnish, echo · To what, where: sound
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 (Hard bare walls, soft curtains, furnished room), 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 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walls | amod |
| 2 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 walls | amod |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bounce | nsubj |
| 4 | bounce | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bounce | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bounce | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soak | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 soak | mark |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 curtains | amod |
| 10 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soak | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carpets | punct |
| 12 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 curtains | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sofas | cc |
| 14 | sofas | sofa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 curtains | conj |
| 15 | soak | soak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bounce | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 soak | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 soak | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 echoes | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 echoes | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 21 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 room | amod |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 echoes | nsubj |
| 23 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 24 echoes | advmod |
| 24 | echoes | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 soak | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce back | present | Hard bare walls | sound | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Agent | ||||
| 2 | soak up | infinitive | soft curtains and carpets and sofas | sound | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | furnish | participle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | echo | present | a furnished room | hardly property | vn sound_existence-47.4 «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:11.
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.
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