What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 16
In empty space there is nothing to carry the wobble, so no sound can travel; real astronauts talk to each other by radio.
Who acts: nothing, sound, real astronauts · What happens: be, carry, travel, talk · To what, where: empty space, 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 (nothing, sound, real astronauts), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 space | case |
| 2 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 space | amod |
| 3 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 is | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 carry | mark |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nothing | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wobble | det |
| 10 | wobble | wobble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 travel | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 travel | advmod |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 sound | det |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 travel | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 travel | aux |
| 16 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 carry | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 astronauts | amod |
| 19 | astronauts | astronaut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 talk | nsubj |
| 20 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 is | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 each | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 20 talk | obl |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 each | fixed |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 radio | case |
| 25 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 talk | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | 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 | be | present | nothing | empty space; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | the wobble | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wobble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | travel | can | no sound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | talk | present | real astronauts | to each; by radio | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent |
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:16.
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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