--- title: Short, thin, tight strings wobble fast and sound high; long, thick,… — What sound is: wobbles in the air · tree and pragmatics description: Short, thin, tight strings wobble fast and sound high; long, thick, slack strings wobble slowly and sound low; blowing across bottles with different amounts of water gives different notes, because the air inside wobbles at different speeds. 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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 (Short thin tight strings, long thick slack strings, 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:9 # text = Short, thin, tight strings wobble fast and sound high; long, thick, slack strings wobble slowly and sound low; blowing across bottles with different amounts of water gives different notes, because the air inside wobbles at different speeds. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wobble wobble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 slack slack ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 wobble wobble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 nsubj _ _ 26 across across ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 bottles bottle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 34 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 41 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 inside inside ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 wobbles wobble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 speeds speed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **wobble** | present | Short thin tight strings | | | | | fast *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sound** | present | Short thin tight strings *not said here* | | | | | high *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **wobble** | present | long thick slack strings | | | | | slowly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sound** | present | long thick slack strings *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **blow** | gerund | | | | bottles with different amounts of water | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **give** | present | | different notes | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | | 7 | **wobble** | present | the air | | | different speeds | | inside *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | | 8 | **amount** | | | water | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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:9`. **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): 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/8/) - next →: [What sound is: wobbles in the air, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/)