Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 7

The recorder is a real instrument: composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi wrote music for it, and professional recorder players still perform today.

Who acts: recorder, composers, professional recorder players · What happens: be, write, perform · To what, where: real instrument, music

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, composers, professional recorder players), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 recorder	det
2	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instrument	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 instrument	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 instrument	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 instrument	amod
6	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 composers	punct
8	composers	composer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 instrument	conj
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 Bach	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	Bach	Bach	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 composers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Handel	punct
13	Handel	Handel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bach	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Vivaldi	cc
15	Vivaldi	Vivaldi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Handel	conj
16	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 composers	acl:relcl
17	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wrote	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrote	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 perform	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 perform	cc
22	professional	professional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 players	amod
23	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 players	compound
24	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 perform	nsubj
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 perform	advmod
26	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wrote	conj
27	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 perform	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 instrument	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the recorder	a real instrument and composers such Bach and Handel and Vivaldi			tree rules
2	write	past	composers such Bach and Handel and Vivaldi not said here	music		for music	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent music=Result for it=Beneficiary
3	perform	present	professional recorder players		still; today		vn performance-26.7 «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:7.

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. 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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