What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 6

A plucked guitar string wobbles back and forth very fast and pushes the air in little waves; press a finger on it and the sound stops.

Who acts: plucked guitar string, sound · What happens: pluck, wobble, push, press, stop · To what, where: air, little waves, finger

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 (plucked guitar string, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 string	det
2	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 string	amod
3	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 string	compound
4	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wobbles	nsubj
5	wobbles	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 wobbles	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fast	cc
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	6 back	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wobbles	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pushes	cc
12	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wobbles	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pushes	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 waves	case
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 waves	amod
17	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pushes	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 press	punct
19	press	press	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 wobbles	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 finger	det
21	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 press	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 press	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stops	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sound	det
26	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stops	nsubj
27	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 press	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wobbles	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pluck	participle				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	wobble	present	a plucked guitar string			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	push	present	a plucked guitar string not said here	the air	little waves	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent air=Theme in wave=Trajectory
4	press	infinitive		a finger	air	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme
5	stop	present	the sound			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:6.

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 ×3. 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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