What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 7
When you hum, your vocal cords wobble as air from your lungs passes them, and you can feel the buzz on your throat.
Who acts: you, vocal cords, air · What happens: hum, wobble, pass, feel · To what, where: cords, buzz, throat
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 (you, vocal cords, air), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 hum | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hum | nsubj |
| 3 | hum | hum | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wobble | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hum | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cords | nmod:poss |
| 6 | vocal | vocal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cords | amod |
| 7 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wobble | nsubj |
| 8 | wobble | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 passes | mark |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passes | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 lungs | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lungs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 air | nmod |
| 14 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wobble | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 passes | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feel | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 feel | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 feel | aux |
| 20 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wobble | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 buzz | det |
| 22 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feel | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 throat | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 throat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feel | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wobble | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hum | present | you | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | wobble | present | your vocal cords | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass | present | air from your lungs | cords = cord | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | feel | can | you | the buzz | your throat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buzz=Theme on throat=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:7.
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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