What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 4
Sound needs something to travel through, air, water or solid things, so in the emptiness of space there is no sound at all.
Who acts: Sound · What happens: need, travel, be · To what, where: something, air, emptiness
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), 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 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 needs | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 travel | mark |
| 5 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 something | acl |
| 6 | through | through | ADV | _ | 5 travel | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 air | punct |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 air | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 things | cc |
| 12 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 water | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 is | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 emptiness | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 emptiness | det |
| 18 | emptiness | emptiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 space | case |
| 20 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 emptiness | nmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 needs | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 sound | det |
| 24 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 sound | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 needs | 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 | need | present | Sound | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | Sound not said here | air and water or solid things | through property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | be | present | no sound at all | the emptiness of space; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in emptiness=Location |
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:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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