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title: Every sound starts with something wobbling very fast: a guitar strin… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics
description: Every sound starts with something wobbling very fast: a guitar string, a drum skin, or the vocal cords in your throat. Who acts: sound. A sentence of the lesson «What sound is: wobbles in the air» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 0

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Every sound starts with something wobbling very fast: a guitar string, a drum skin, or the vocal cords in your throat.

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**Who acts:** sound · **What happens:** start, wobble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What sound is: wobbles in the air» 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 (sound), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:017-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air.lesson:0
# text = Every sound starts with something wobbling very fast: a guitar string, a drum skin, or the vocal cords in your throat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 017-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air.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): no change
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	wobbling	wobble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	vocal	vocal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | every sound |  |  |  |  | with something | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with something=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **wobble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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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