--- title: A plucked guitar string wobbles back and forth very fast and pushes… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics description: A plucked guitar string wobbles back and forth very fast and pushes the air in little waves; press a finger on it and the sound stops. Who acts: plucked guitar string, sound. 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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 (plucked guitar string, 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:6 # text = A plucked guitar string wobbles back and forth very fast and pushes the air in little waves; press a finger on it and the sound stops. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 2 plucked pluck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 3 guitar guitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 forth forth ADV RB _ 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 19 press press VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **pluck** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wobble** | present | a plucked guitar string | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **push** | present | a plucked guitar string *not said here* | the air | | little waves | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent air=Theme in wave=Trajectory | | 4 | **press** | infinitive | | a finger | | air | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | | 5 | **stop** | present | the sound | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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 ×3. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/5/) - next →: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/)