Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes, sentence 8
The sound we hear coming back is called an echo.
Who acts: we, sound · What happens: hear, come back, call · To what, where: sound · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sound | acl:relcl |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 hear | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 coming | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 echo | det |
| 10 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | 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 | hear | present | we | the sound not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back | gerund | the sound not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | the sound | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:8.
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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