--- title: The wobbling thing shoves the air next to it, that air shoves the ne… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics description: The wobbling thing shoves the air next to it, that air shoves the next bit, and the wobble travels outwards until it reaches your ear, a bit like a push passed along a queue. Who acts: wobbling thing, air, wobble. 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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 (wobbling thing, air, wobble), 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:1 # text = The wobbling thing shoves the air next to it, that air shoves the next bit, and the wobble travels outwards until it reaches your ear, a bit like a push passed along a queue. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wobbling wobbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shoves shove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 next next ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 shoves shove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 wobble wobble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 outwards outward ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 along along ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shove** | present | the wobbling thing | the air | | air | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent air=Theme to it=Destination | | 2 | **shove** | present | that air | the next bit | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | | 3 | **travel** | present | the wobble | | | | | outward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | present | wobble | your ear | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 5 | **pass** | participle | | a push *not said here* | | a queue | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along queue=Location | 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:physics:017-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air.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): R5-strong ×1, 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: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/0/) - next →: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/)