Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics, sentence 16
Sound travels about one mile in 5 seconds through air.
Who acts: Sound · What happens: travel · To what, where: one mile, air
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» of the world 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), 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 travels | nsubj |
| 2 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mile | nummod |
| 5 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travels | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 seconds | case |
| 7 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 seconds | nummod |
| 8 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 travels | obl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travels | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | Sound | one mile | air | second | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory |
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:world:040-body-and-physics-reasoning.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 ×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.
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