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title: Dogs can hear much higher notes than people can, and people hear the… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics
description: Dogs can hear much higher notes than people can, and people hear the highest notes less and less as they grow older. Who acts: Dogs, people. 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 ever
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# What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 14

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Dogs can hear much higher notes than people can, and people hear the highest notes less and less as they grow older.

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**Who acts:** Dogs, people · **What happens:** hear, grow · **To what, where:** higher notes, highest notes

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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 (Dogs, people), 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:14
# text = Dogs can hear much higher notes than people can, and people hear the highest notes less and less as they grow older.
# 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 ×2
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl:unmarked
17	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | can | Dogs | higher notes |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | present | people | the highest notes |  |  |  | less *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 3 | **grow** | present | people |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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**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:14`.

**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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