--- title: Sound bends around corners and bounces off walls, but light travels… — Thinking about noticing · tree and pragmatics description: Sound bends around corners and bounces off walls, but light travels in straight lines — so you can hear a car coming round a corner before you can see it. Who acts: Sound, light, you, car. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sound, light, you, car), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.lesson:1 # text = Sound bends around corners and bounces off walls, but light travels in straight lines — so you can hear a car coming round a corner before you can see it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 020-noticing-like-a-cat.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 Sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 around around ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 off off ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 — - PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 acl _ _ 24 round round ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 27 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | present | Sound | | | corners | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around corner=Location | | 2 | **bounce off** | present | Sound *not said here* | walls | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Agent | | 3 | **travel** | present | light | | | straight lines | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Trajectory | | 4 | **hear** | can | you | a car | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | | 5 | **come round** | gerund | a car *not said here* | a corner | | | | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | can | you | car | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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](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:everyday:020-noticing-like-a-cat.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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Thinking about noticing, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/0/) - next →: [Thinking about noticing, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/20-noticing-like-a-cat/)