--- title: Cupping your hand behind your ear gathers more sound into it, which… — Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels · tree and pragmatics description: Cupping your hand behind your ear gathers more sound into it, which is why foxes and rabbits have big ears that turn towards sounds. Who acts: Cupping, foxes, big ears. A sentence of the lesson «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels/15/) [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/) / [Thunder, sirens and how fast sound tra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels/) / 15 # Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels, sentence 15 Cupping your hand behind your ear gathers more sound into it, which is why foxes and rabbits have big ears that turn towards sounds. **Who acts:** Cupping, foxes, big ears · **What happens:** cup, gather, be, have, turn · **To what, where:** hand, ear, more sound, big ears, sounds This is a sentence of the lesson «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» 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 (Cupping, foxes, big ears), 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:15 # text = Cupping your hand behind your ear gathers more sound into it, which is why foxes and rabbits have big ears that turn towards sounds. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cupping cup VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 behind behind ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 gathers gather VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 parataxis _ _ 16 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 20 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 towards towards ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cup** | gerund | | your hand | | your ear | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 2 | **gather** | present | Cupping | more sound | | | | into Sound | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient into it=Co-Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | foxes and rabbits | big ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 5 | **turn** | present | big ears | | | sounds | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards sound=Trajectory | 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:018-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels.lesson:15`. **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. 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