--- title: Sound travels further and faster in water than in air, and whale son… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics description: Sound travels further and faster in water than in air, and whale songs can carry hundreds of kilometres. Who acts: Sound, whale songs. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [What sound is: wobbles in the air](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/) / 15 # What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 15 Sound travels further and faster in water than in air, and whale songs can carry hundreds of kilometres. **Who acts:** Sound, whale songs · **What happens:** travel, carry · **To what, where:** water, hundreds 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, whale songs), 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:15 # text = Sound travels further and faster in water than in air, and whale songs can carry hundreds of kilometres. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 8 than than ADP IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 17 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | Sound | | | water | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 2 | **carry** | can | whale songs | hundreds of kilometres | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/14/) - next →: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/)