Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes, sentence 7
When sound hits a large hard surface, such as a cliff or a wall of an empty hall, it bounces back.
Who acts: sound · What happens: hit, bounce back · To what, where: large hard surface
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 2 sound | mark |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hits | nsubj |
| 3 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bounces | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 surface | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 surface | amod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 surface | amod |
| 7 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hits | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surface | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 cliff | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cliff | det |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surface | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 wall | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cliff | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hall | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hall | det |
| 18 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hall | amod |
| 19 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wall | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bounces | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bounces | nsubj |
| 22 | bounces | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 bounces | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 bounces | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present | sound | a large hard surface | such a cliff or a wall of a empty hall | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme surface=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | bounce back | present | sound | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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