--- title: Rice on a drum jumps when you bang it, because the drum skin wobbles… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics description: Rice on a drum jumps when you bang it, because the drum skin wobbles up and down; hit gently and the rice barely moves and the sound is quiet. Who acts: Rice, you, drum skin, 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 (Rice, you, drum skin, 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:8 # text = Rice on a drum jumps when you bang it, because the drum skin wobbles up and down; hit gently and the rice barely moves and the sound is quiet. # 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 Rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 jumps jump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 bang bang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 13 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 16 up up ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 down down ADV RB _ 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 gently gently ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 barely barely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **jump** | present | Rice on a drum | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bang** | present | you | Rice | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 3 | **wobble** | present | the drum skin | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hit** | infinitive | Rice on a drum *not said here* | | | | | gently *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **move** | present | the rice | | | | | barely *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | the sound | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/)