Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes, sentence 17
Soft materials such as curtains and carpets absorb sound and reduce echoes.
Who acts: Soft materials · What happens: absorb, reduce · To what, where: sound, echoes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes» 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 (Soft materials), 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 | Soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 materials | amod |
| 2 | materials | material | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 absorb | nsubj |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 curtains | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 materials | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carpets | cc |
| 7 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 curtains | conj |
| 8 | absorb | absorb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 absorb | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reduce | cc |
| 11 | reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 absorb | conj |
| 12 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reduce | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 absorb | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | absorb | present | Soft materials such curtains and carpets | sound | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal sound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reduce | present | Soft materials such curtains and carpets not said here | echoes | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer echo=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:world:054-sound.lesson:17.
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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