--- title: When you hum, your vocal cords wobble as air from your lungs passes… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics description: When you hum, your vocal cords wobble as air from your lungs passes them, and you can feel the buzz on your throat. Who acts: you, vocal cords, air. 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 --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # What sound is: wobbles in the air, sentence 7 When you hum, your vocal cords wobble as air from your lungs passes them, and you can feel the buzz on your throat. **Who acts:** you, vocal cords, air · **What happens:** hum, wobble, pass, feel · **To what, where:** cords, buzz, throat 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 (you, vocal cords, air), 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:7 # text = When you hum, your vocal cords wobble as air from your lungs passes them, and you can feel the buzz on your throat. # 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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hum hum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 vocal vocal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cords cord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wobble wobble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hum** | present | you | | | | | | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 2 | **wobble** | present | your vocal cords | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | present | air from your lungs | cords *= cord* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | | 4 | **feel** | can | you | the buzz | | your throat | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buzz=Theme on throat=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:7`. **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): no change. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/6/) - next →: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/)