Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels, sentence 16
A whisper can travel round a curved wall in a whispering gallery, such as the famous one in St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Who acts: whisper · What happens: travel, curve · To what, where: whispering gallery
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 (whisper), 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 | 2 whisper | det |
| 2 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 travel | aux |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 7 | curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wall | amod |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gallery | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gallery | det |
| 11 | whispering | whispering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gallery | compound |
| 12 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 one | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 such | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gallery | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Cathedral | case |
| 20 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Paul | compound |
| 21 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Cathedral | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Paul | case |
| 23 | Cathedral | Cathedral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 London | case |
| 25 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Cathedral | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | can | a whisper | a whispering gallery | round a curved wall | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round wall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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:16.
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): R8-pos-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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