--- title: Sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, so counting t… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, so counting the seconds between a flash and its thunder tells you how far away the lightning is. Who acts: Sound, thunder, lightning. 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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, thunder, lightning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:6 # text = Sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, so counting the seconds between a flash and its thunder tells you how far away the lightning is. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): R5-strong ×3 1 Sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 so so CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 11 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 23 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **travel** | present | Sound | one kilometre | | | second | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **count** | gerund | | | | | second | between a flash | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Sound's thunder | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | present | the lightning | | | | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **thunder** | | Sound | | | | | | nom thunder «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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): R5-strong ×3. **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: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/5/) - next →: [Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/)