--- title: A string telephone works because a tight string carries the wobble f… — Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels · tree and pragmatics description: A string telephone works because a tight string carries the wobble from one cup to the other; a slack string or a finger on it stops the sound. Who acts: string telephone, tight string, slack string. 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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 (string telephone, tight string, slack string), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.lesson:11 # text = A string telephone works because a tight string carries the wobble from one cup to the other; a slack string or a finger on it stops the sound. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 telephone telephone NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tight tight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wobble wobble NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 slack slack ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 27 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | a string telephone | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **carry** | present | a tight string | the wobble | | one cup | | to the other | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent wobble=Theme from cup=Initial\_Location to other=Destination | | 3 | **stop** | present | a slack string or a finger on telephone | the sound | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sound=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. 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