Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 1

Covering holes makes the shaking air column longer and the note lower, so every finger matters: one tiny gap and the note squeaks, like a straw that has split along the side.

Who acts: Covering, finger, note · What happens: cover, make, matter, squeak, split · To what, where: holes, shaking air column, straw

This is a sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts 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 (Covering, finger, note), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Covering	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Covering	obj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 column	det
5	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 column	compound
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 column	compound
7	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 column	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 note	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 note	det
11	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 column	conj
12	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 column	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 matters	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 matters	advmod
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 finger	det
16	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 matters	nsubj
17	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 gap	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 gap	nummod
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gap	amod
21	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 squeaks	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 note	det
24	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 squeaks	nsubj
25	squeaks	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gap	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 straw	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	29 straw	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 straw	det
29	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 squeaks	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 split	nsubj:pass
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 split	aux
32	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 straw	acl:relcl
33	along	along	ADP	_	35 side	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 side	det
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 split	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	gerund		holes		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination
2	make	present	Covering	the shaking air column and the note	one tiny gap obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset column=Product
3	matter	present	every finger			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	squeak	present	the note		like a straw	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	split	present · perfect · passive		a straw	along the side	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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, 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:arts:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.lesson:1.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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