Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels, sentence 11

A string telephone works because a tight string carries the wobble from one cup to the other; a slack string or a finger on it stops the sound.

Who acts: string telephone, tight string, slack string · What happens: work, carry, stop · To what, where: wobble, one cup, sound

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 (string telephone, tight string, slack string), 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	3 telephone	det
2	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telephone	compound
3	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 carries	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 string	det
7	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 string	amod
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	nsubj
9	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 works	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wobble	det
11	wobble	wobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 cup	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 cup	nummod
14	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 carries	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stops	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 string	det
20	slack	slack	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 string	amod
21	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stops	nsubj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 finger	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 finger	det
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 string	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 finger	nmod
27	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 works	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sound	det
29	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stops	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	present	a string telephone				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	present	a tight string	the wobble	one cup	to the other	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent wobble=Theme from cup=Initial_Location to other=Destination
3	stop	present	a slack string or a finger on telephone	the sound			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sound=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:018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.lesson:11.

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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels/11/