Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears, sentence 16
Sound spreads out in every direction and gets weaker with distance, so a faraway shout is faint.
Who acts: Sound, faraway shout · What happens: spread out, get, be · To what, where: direction
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» 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, faraway shout), 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 | 2 spreads | nsubj |
| 2 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 spreads | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spreads | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gets | cc |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spreads | conj |
| 9 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 gets | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weaker | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 faint | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 faint | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shout | det |
| 15 | faraway | faraway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shout | amod |
| 16 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 faint | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 faint | cop |
| 18 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spreads | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | present | Sound | every direction | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Sound not said here | weak property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a faraway shout | faint 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:019-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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