--- title: Under the sea light fades fast, but sound travels well and quickly,… — Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins,… · tree and pragmatics description: Under the sea light fades fast, but sound travels well and quickly, so an echo is often the best way to «see» there. Who acts: light, sound, echo. A sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Echolocation in the sea and in people:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/) / 1 # Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans, sentence 1 Under the sea light fades fast, but sound travels well and quickly, so an echo is often the best way to «see» there. **Who acts:** light, sound, echo · **What happens:** fade, travel, be, see · **To what, where:** best way This is a sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» of the biology 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 (light, sound, echo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:1 # text = Under the sea light fades fast, but sound travels well and quickly, so an echo is often the best way to «see» there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Under under ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 echo echo NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fade** | present | light under the sea | | | | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **travel** | present | sound | | | | | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a echo | the best way | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | light under the sea *not said here* | | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-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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