What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 8

Rice on a drum jumps when you bang it, because the drum skin wobbles up and down; hit gently and the rice barely moves and the sound is quiet.

Who acts: Rice, you, drum skin, sound · What happens: jump, bang, wobble, hit, move, be · To what, where: Rice

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 (Rice, you, drum skin, 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	Rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jumps	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 drum	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drum	det
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rice	nmod
5	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 bang	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bang	nsubj
8	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jumps	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bang	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bang	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 wobbles	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skin	det
13	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 skin	compound
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wobbles	nsubj
15	wobbles	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 jumps	advcl
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 wobbles	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 down	cc
18	down	down	ADV	_	16 up	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hit	punct
20	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 jumps	conj
21	gently	gently	ADV	_	20 hit	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 moves	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rice	det
24	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 moves	nsubj
25	barely	barely	ADV	_	26 moves	advmod
26	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 hit	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 quiet	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sound	det
29	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 quiet	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 quiet	cop
31	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 moves	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 jumps	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump	present	Rice on a drum			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bang	present	you	Rice		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	wobble	present	the drum skin			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hit	infinitive	Rice on a drum not said here		gently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	move	present	the rice		barely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	the sound		quiet property	tree rules

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:8.

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 ×2. 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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