--- title: Sound gets quieter the further it travels from its source. — Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes · tree and pragmatics description: Sound gets quieter the further it travels from its source. Who acts: Sound. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/18/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/) / 18 # Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes, sentence 18 Sound gets quieter the further it travels from its source. **Who acts:** Sound · **What happens:** get, travel · **To what, where:** source 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 (Sound), 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:18 # text = Sound gets quieter the further it travels from its source. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 quieter quiet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 further further ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 source source NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Sound | | | | | quiet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **travel** | present | sound | | | sound's source | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from source=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:world:054-sound.lesson:18`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch an…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/17/) - next →: [Electricity — circuits, switches and s…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/55-electricity/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/54-sound/)