Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 3
Schools start with the recorder because it is cheap, light and quick to learn, and it teaches breathing, fingers, reading notes and playing together, which carry over to drums, guitar or anything you pick later.
Who acts: Schools, recorder, you · What happens: start, be, learn, teach, read, play · To what, where: breathing, notes, drums
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 (Schools, recorder, you), 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 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 start | nsubj |
| 2 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 recorder | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 recorder | det |
| 5 | recorder | recorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 start | obl |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 cheap | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cheap | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cheap | cop |
| 9 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 start | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 light | punct |
| 11 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cheap | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 quick | cc |
| 13 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cheap | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 learn | mark |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 quick | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 teaches | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 teaches | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 teaches | nsubj |
| 19 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 start | conj |
| 20 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teaches | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fingers | punct |
| 22 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 breathing | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reading | punct |
| 24 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 breathing | conj |
| 25 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 reading | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 playing | cc |
| 27 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 reading | conj |
| 28 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 playing | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carry | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 carry | nsubj |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 start | conj |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 carry | compound:prt |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 drums | case |
| 34 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 carry | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 guitar | punct |
| 36 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drums | conj |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 anything | cc |
| 38 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 36 guitar | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 pick | nsubj |
| 40 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 anything | acl:relcl |
| 41 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 pick | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 start | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Schools | with the recorder | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with recorder=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | recorder | cheap property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | recorder not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | recorder not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | learn | to-infinitive | recorder not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | teach speech: other | present | recorder | breathing and fingers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent breathing=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | read | gerund | recorder not said here | notes | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Topic | ||||
| 8 | play | gerund | recorder not said here | together property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | carry over | present | drums and guitar | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to drum=Destination | |||||
| 10 | pick | present | you | late property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.
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