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title: In air sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, while… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: In air sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, while light arrives almost instantly, so seconds divided by three gives the distance of a storm in kilometres. Who acts: sound, light, seconds. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the ph
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# Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★, sentence 5

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In air sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, while light arrives almost instantly, so seconds divided by three gives the distance of a storm in kilometres.

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**Who acts:** sound, light, seconds · **What happens:** travel, arrive, divide, give · **To what, where:** one kilometre, air, seconds, distance

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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 (sound, light, seconds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.lesson:5
# text = In air sound travels about one kilometre every three seconds, while light arrives almost instantly, so seconds divided by three gives the distance of a storm in kilometres.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 043-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | present | sound | one kilometre |  | air | second |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory |
| 2 | **arrive** | present | light |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **divide** | participle |  | seconds *not said here* |  |  |  | by three | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent by three=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | seconds | the distance of a storm in kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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