Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels, sentence 0

Sound is fast, but nowhere near as fast as light: in air it goes about one kilometre every three seconds, while light crosses the same distance almost instantly.

Who acts: Sound, light · What happens: be, go about, cross · To what, where: one kilometre, air, same distance

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» 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, light), 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	3 fast	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fast	cop
3	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fast	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fast	cc
6	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 near	advmod
7	near	near	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fast	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 light	case
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fast	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 goes	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goes	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 goes	nsubj
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fast	parataxis
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 kilometre	nummod
19	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goes	obj
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 seconds	det
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 seconds	nummod
22	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 goes	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 crosses	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 crosses	mark
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crosses	nsubj
26	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 goes	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 distance	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 distance	amod
29	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 crosses	obj
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 instantly	advmod
31	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	26 crosses	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fast	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sound				fast property	tree rules
2	be		Sound not said here				as light; near property	tree rules
3	go about	present	Sound	one kilometre	air	second		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme
4	cross	present	light	the same distance			instantly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=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:018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.lesson:0.

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, 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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