Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 10

Songs often share a few notes or chords, because music uses a limited number of notes; whether two songs are too alike is argued, sometimes in court.

Who acts: Songs, music, two songs · What happens: share, use, be, argue · To what, where: few notes, limited number, court · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» 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 (Songs, music, two songs), 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	Songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 share	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 share	advmod
3	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 notes	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 notes	amod
6	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 share	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 chords	cc
8	chords	chord	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 notes	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 uses	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 uses	mark
11	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uses	nsubj
12	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 share	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 number	det
14	limited	limited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 number	amod
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 uses	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 notes	case
17	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 argued	punct
19	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 alike	mark
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 songs	nummod
21	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 alike	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 alike	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 alike	advmod
24	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 argued	csubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 argued	aux:pass
26	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 share	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 court	punct
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 court	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 court	case
30	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 argued	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 share	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	share	present	Songs	a few notes or chords		often property	tree rules
2	use	present	music	a limited number of notes			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
3	is	present	two songs			alike property	tree rules
4	argue speech: disagree	present · passive	Songs not said here		court		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»

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:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:10.

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): 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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