What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 13

Ships use echoes under water, called sonar, and doctors use very high sounds, called ultrasound, to see inside the body.

Who acts: Ships, echoes, doctors, high sounds · What happens: use, call, see · To what, where: echoes, water, sonar, high sounds, ultrasound, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ships, echoes, doctors, high sounds), 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	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 echoes	acl
8	sonar	sonar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
11	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	nsubj
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 high	advmod
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sounds	amod
15	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sounds	acl
18	ultrasound	ultrasound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 see	mark
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 use	advcl
22	inside	inside	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 body	det
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 see	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	present	Ships	echoes	water	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient
2	call	participle	echoes not said here	sonar		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use	present	doctors	high sounds		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
4	call	participle	high sounds not said here	ultrasound		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	to-infinitive	doctors not said here		the body	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: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): 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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