--- title: Hard bare walls bounce sound back, while soft curtains, carpets and… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics description: Hard bare walls bounce sound back, while soft curtains, carpets and sofas soak it up, so a furnished room hardly echoes. Who acts: Hard bare walls, soft curtains, furnished room. 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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 (Hard bare walls, soft curtains, furnished room), 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:11 # text = Hard bare walls bounce sound back, while soft curtains, carpets and sofas soak it up, so a furnished room hardly echoes. # 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 1 Hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 2 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bounce bounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 9 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 carpets carpet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 sofas sofa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 soak soak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 furnished furnish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 echoes echo VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bounce back** | present | Hard bare walls | sound | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Agent | | 2 | **soak up** | infinitive | soft curtains and carpets and sofas | sound | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **furnish** | participle | | | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **echo** | present | a furnished room | | | | | hardly *property* | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:11`. **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. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/10/) - next →: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/)