What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 14
Dogs can hear much higher notes than people can, and people hear the highest notes less and less as they grow older.
Who acts: Dogs, people · What happens: hear, grow · To what, where: higher notes, highest notes
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 (Dogs, people), 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 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 higher | advmod |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 notes | amod |
| 6 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 can | mark |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 can | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hear | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hear | cc |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hear | nsubj |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 notes | det |
| 15 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 notes | amod |
| 16 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hear | obj |
| 17 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 hear | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grow | cc |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 less | conj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 grow | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hear | conj |
| 23 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 grow | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | can | Dogs | higher notes | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | people | the highest notes | less property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | grow | present | people | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:14.
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 ×2. 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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