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title: Shorter, thinner or tighter strings make higher notes. — Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Shorter, thinner or tighter strings make higher notes. Who acts: Shorter strings. A sentence of the lesson «Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes, sentence 15

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Shorter, thinner or tighter strings make higher notes.

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**Who acts:** Shorter strings · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** higher notes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes» of the world 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 (Shorter strings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:054-sound.lesson:15
# text = Shorter, thinner or tighter strings make higher notes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 054-sound.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): no change
1	Shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	thinner	thin	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tighter	tight	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
6	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | present | Shorter strings | higher notes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset note=Product |

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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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**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:world:054-sound.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): no change. **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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