Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 13
To improvise means to make up music as you play, within the song's chords and rhythm; good improvisers have practised for years.
Who acts: you, good improvisers · What happens: improvise, mean, make up, play, practise · To what, where: music · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» 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, good improvisers), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 improvise | mark |
| 2 | improvise | improvise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | csubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 means | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 make | compound:prt |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 play | nsubj |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 chords | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 song | det |
| 14 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chords | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 song | case |
| 16 | chords | chord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rhythm | cc |
| 18 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chords | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 practised | punct |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 improvisers | amod |
| 21 | improvisers | improviser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 practised | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 practised | aux |
| 23 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 means | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 practised | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | improvise | to-infinitive | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | make up not said to happen | to-infinitive | music | within the song's chords and rhythm | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme music=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | play | present | you | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | practise | present · perfect | good improvisers | year | tree rules |
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:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:13.
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. 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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