Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes, sentence 6
A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low.
Who acts: short tight guitar string, long loose string · What happens: vibrate, sound
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 (short tight guitar string, long loose 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 | 6 string | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 string | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 string | amod |
| 5 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 string | compound |
| 6 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vibrates | nsubj |
| 7 | vibrates | vibrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 vibrates | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sounds | cc |
| 10 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 vibrates | conj |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sounds | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 vibrates | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 string | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 string | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 string | amod |
| 17 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vibrates | nsubj |
| 18 | vibrates | vibrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 vibrates | conj |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 vibrates | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sounds | cc |
| 21 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 vibrates | conj |
| 22 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sounds | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vibrates | 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 | vibrate | present | a short tight guitar string | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sound | present | a short tight guitar string not said here | high property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | vibrate | present | a long loose string | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sound | present | a long loose string not said here | low property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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