Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 10

Tonguing means starting each note by touching the tongue behind the teeth, as if quietly saying "doo", so the notes come out clean and separate.

Who acts: notes · What happens: tongue, mean, start, touch, say, come out · To what, where: note, tongue, teeth, doo · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (notes), 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	Tonguing	tongue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starting	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 touching	mark
7	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 starting	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tongue	det
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touching	obj
10	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teeth	det
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touching	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tonguing	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 saying	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 saying	mark
16	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	17 saying	advmod
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 touching	advcl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 doo	punct
19	doo	doo	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saying	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 doo	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 notes	det
24	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	parataxis
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 come	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 separate	cc
29	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clean	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tongue	gerund					tree rules
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start not said to happen	gerund		each note			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Eventuality
4	touch	gerund		the tongue	the teeth		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Co-Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund		doo		quietly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent doo=Topic
6	come out	infinitive	the notes			clean, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:10.

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. 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/10/