Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 5
Blowing too hard makes a recorder jump up to a shrill squeal; a soft, steady breath gives a clear note.
Who acts: Blowing, recorder, soft steady breath · What happens: blow, make, jump up, give · To what, where: recorder, clear note
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 (Blowing, recorder, soft steady breath), 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 | Blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 hard | advmod |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 1 Blowing | advmod |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 recorder | det |
| 6 | recorder | recorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 jump | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 squeal | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 squeal | det |
| 11 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 squeal | amod |
| 12 | squeal | squeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gives | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 breath | det |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 breath | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soft | punct |
| 17 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 breath | amod |
| 18 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gives | nsubj |
| 19 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 note | det |
| 21 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 note | amod |
| 22 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gives | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | gerund | hard property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Blowing | a recorder | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jump up | infinitive | a recorder not said here | to a shrill squeal result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to squeal=Result | ||||
| 4 | give | present | a soft steady breath | a clear note | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
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:5.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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.
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