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title: A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long,… — Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes · tree and pragmatics
description: A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low. Who acts: short tight guitar string, long loose string. A sentence of the lesson «Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes, sentence 6

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A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low.

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**Who acts:** short tight guitar string, long loose string · **What happens:** vibrate, sound

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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 (short tight guitar string, long loose string), 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:6
# text = A short, tight guitar string vibrates fast and sounds high; a long, loose string vibrates slowly and sounds low.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	vibrates	vibrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	vibrates	vibrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vibrate** | present | a short tight guitar string |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sound** | present | a short tight guitar string *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **vibrate** | present | a long loose string |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sound** | present | a long loose string *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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