Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 13

A class of beginners sounds rough at first because everyone is learning breath, fingers and timing at once; after weeks of practice the same class can sound clear and together.

Who acts: class, everyone, same class · What happens: sound, learn · To what, where: breath

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 (class, everyone, same class), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 class	det
2	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 beginners	case
4	beginners	beginner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 class	nmod
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sounds	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sounds	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 learning	mark
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 learning	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 learning	aux
12	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sounds	advcl
13	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 learning	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fingers	punct
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 breath	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 timing	cc
17	timing	timing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fingers	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 learning	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 sound	punct
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 weeks	case
22	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sound	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 practice	case
24	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weeks	nmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 class	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 class	amod
27	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sound	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sound	aux
29	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sounds	parataxis
30	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sound	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 together	cc
32	together	together	ADV	_	30 clear	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	a class of beginners			rough property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location
2	learn	present · progressive	everyone	breath and fingers and timing			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Topic
3	sound	can	the same class		week	clear property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:13.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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