What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 9
Short, thin, tight strings wobble fast and sound high; long, thick, slack strings wobble slowly and sound low; blowing across bottles with different amounts of water gives different notes, because the air inside wobbles at different speeds.
Who acts: Short thin tight strings, long thick slack strings, air · What happens: wobble, sound, blow, give, amount · To what, where: bottles, different notes, different speeds, water
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 (Short thin tight strings, long thick slack strings, 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 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strings | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Short | punct |
| 3 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strings | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thin | punct |
| 5 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strings | amod |
| 6 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wobble | nsubj |
| 7 | wobble | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 wobble | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sound | cc |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wobble | conj |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 thick | punct |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strings | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strings | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wobble | punct |
| 17 | slack | slack | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 strings | amod |
| 18 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wobble | nsubj |
| 19 | wobble | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wobble | conj |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 19 wobble | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sound | cc |
| 22 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wobble | conj |
| 23 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sound | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 blowing | punct |
| 25 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 gives | nsubj |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 bottles | case |
| 27 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 blowing | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 amounts | case |
| 29 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 amounts | amod |
| 30 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bottles | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 amounts | nmod |
| 33 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wobble | parataxis |
| 34 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 notes | amod |
| 35 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gives | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 air | punct |
| 37 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 41 wobbles | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 air | det |
| 39 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wobbles | nsubj |
| 40 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 41 wobbles | advmod |
| 41 | wobbles | wobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 gives | advcl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 speeds | case |
| 43 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 speeds | amod |
| 44 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 wobbles | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wobble | 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 | wobble | present | Short thin tight strings | fast property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | Short thin tight strings not said here | high property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wobble | present | long thick slack strings | slowly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sound | present | long thick slack strings not said here | low property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | blow | gerund | bottles with different amounts of water | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | give | present | different notes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | |||||
| 7 | wobble | present | the air | different speeds | inside property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | |||
| 8 | amount | water | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:9.
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): 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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