Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 12
On the recorder, B, A and G are played with the left hand alone and need one, two and three fingers, so teachers start with them instead of going in alphabet order.
Who acts: teachers · What happens: play, need, start, go · To what, where: B, recorder, one, alphabet order
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 (teachers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 recorder | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 recorder | det |
| 3 | recorder | recorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 played | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recorder | punct |
| 5 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 played | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 A | punct |
| 7 | A | A | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 B | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 G | cc |
| 9 | G | G | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 B | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 played | aux:pass |
| 11 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 14 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hand | amod |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 played | obl |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 hand | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 need | cc |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 played | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 need | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 two | punct |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 one | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fingers | cc |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 fingers | nummod |
| 24 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 start | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 start | advmod |
| 27 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 start | nsubj |
| 28 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 played | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 start | obl |
| 31 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 going | mark |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 instead | fixed |
| 33 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 start | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 order | case |
| 35 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 order | compound |
| 36 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 going | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 played | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · passive | B and G | the recorder | with the left hand | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: subject=Theme with hand=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | need | present | one and three fingers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | |||||
| 3 | start | present | teachers | with B | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | teachers not said here | alphabet order | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
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:12.
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.
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