What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 15
Sound travels further and faster in water than in air, and whale songs can carry hundreds of kilometres.
Who acts: Sound, whale songs · What happens: travel, carry · To what, where: water, hundreds
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, whale songs), 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 travels | nsubj |
| 2 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 travels | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 faster | cc |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 further | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travels | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 air | mark |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sound | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carry | cc |
| 13 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 songs | compound |
| 14 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | aux |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 travels | conj |
| 17 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kilometres | case |
| 19 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hundreds | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travels | 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 | travel | present | Sound | water | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | carry | can | whale songs | hundreds of kilometres | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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:15.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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