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title: A wine glass sings when you rub its rim with a wet finger, because t… — Swings and pendulums · tree and pragmatics
description: A wine glass sings when you rub its rim with a wet finger, because the finger sticks and slips in time with the glass's own wobble; more water makes the note lower. Who acts: wine glass, you, finger, more water. A sentence of the lesson «Swings and pendulums» of the physics course of Mova's primary 
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# Swings and pendulums, sentence 16

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A wine glass sings when you rub its rim with a wet finger, because the finger sticks and slips in time with the glass's own wobble; more water makes the note lower.

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**Who acts:** wine glass, you, finger, more water, glass · **What happens:** sing, rub, stick, slip, make, wobble · **To what, where:** rim, note

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Swings and pendulums» of the physics 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 (wine glass, you, finger, more water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.lesson:16
# text = A wine glass sings when you rub its rim with a wet finger, because the finger sticks and slips in time with the glass's own wobble; more water makes the note lower.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 010-swings-and-pendulums.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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rub	rub	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wobble	wobble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	lower	lower	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	xcomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | a wine glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rub** | present | you | glass's rim |  |  |  | with a wet finger | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent rim=Destination with finger=Theme |
| 3 | **stick** | present | the finger |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **slip** | present | the finger *not said here* |  |  |  | time | with the glass's own wobble | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **make** | present | more water | the note |  |  |  | lower *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset note=Product |
| 6 | **wobble** |  | the glass |  |  |  |  |  | nom wobble «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:physics:010-swings-and-pendulums.lesson:16`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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