Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 6
Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.
Who acts: Recorder players, hard fingertips, gaps · What happens: cover, leave, make · To what, where: holes, gaps, squeaks
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 (Recorder players, hard fingertips, gaps), 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 | Recorder | recorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 players | compound |
| 2 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cover | nsubj |
| 3 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 holes | det |
| 5 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cover | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pads | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pads | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pads | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 soft | punct |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pads | amod |
| 11 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cover | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fingers | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pads | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fingertips | amod |
| 18 | fingertips | fingertip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cover | advcl |
| 20 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 make | nsubj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gaps | acl:relcl |
| 23 | squeaks | squeak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cover | 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 | cover | present | Recorder players | the holes | with the soft flat pads of players's fingers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Destination with pad=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | present | hard fingertips | gaps | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | gaps | squeaks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset squeak=Product |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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