Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 2
Picture the first recorder lesson: thirty children blow as hard as they can and the room sounds like a flock of angry geese; nothing is broken, the recorder just wants a soft, steady breath, like cooling hot soup.
Who acts: you, thirty children, room, recorder · What happens: picture, blow, sound, break, want, cool · To what, where: first recorder lesson, nothing, soft steady breath, hot soup
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 (you, thirty children, room, recorder), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lesson | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 lesson | amod |
| 4 | recorder | recorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lesson | compound |
| 5 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 blow | punct |
| 7 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 children | nummod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blow | nsubj |
| 9 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 blow | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 can | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hard | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sounds | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | nsubj |
| 18 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 blow | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 flock | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flock | det |
| 21 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 geese | case |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 geese | amod |
| 24 | geese | geese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flock | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 broken | punct |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 broken | aux:pass |
| 28 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wants | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 recorder | det |
| 31 | recorder | recorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wants | nsubj |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 wants | advmod |
| 33 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 breath | det |
| 35 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 breath | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 soft | punct |
| 37 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 breath | amod |
| 38 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wants | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 cooling | punct |
| 40 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 41 cooling | mark |
| 41 | cooling | cool | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Picture | conj |
| 42 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 soup | amod |
| 43 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cooling | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | the first recorder lesson | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | present | thirty children | hard property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sound | present | the room | like a flock of angry geese | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | break | present · passive | nothing | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | want | present | the recorder | a soft steady breath | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breath=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cool | gerund | you not said here | hot soup | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=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:2.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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