Starting a band, sentence 0
A band is a team where everyone has a job: the drums keep the beat, the bass plays the low notes, a guitar or keyboard plays chords, and someone sings; the bass and drums together are the rhythm section, the floor the whole song stands on.
Who acts: band, everyone, drums, bass, guitar, someone · What happens: be, have, keep, play, sing, stand on · To what, where: team, job, beat, low notes, chords, rhythm section
This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» 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 (band, everyone, drums, bass), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 team | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 team | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 team | det |
| 5 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 has | advmod |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 team | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 job | det |
| 10 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 drums | det |
| 13 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beat | det |
| 16 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plays | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bass | det |
| 19 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plays | nsubj |
| 20 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 notes | det |
| 22 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 notes | amod |
| 23 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 plays | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 plays | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 guitar | det |
| 26 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 plays | nsubj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 keyboard | cc |
| 28 | keyboard | keyboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 guitar | conj |
| 29 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | conj |
| 30 | chords | chord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 plays | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sings | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sings | cc |
| 33 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 sings | nsubj |
| 34 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 plays | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 bass | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bass | det |
| 37 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 section | nsubj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 drums | cc |
| 39 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bass | conj |
| 40 | together | together | ADV | _ | 44 section | advmod |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 section | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 section | det |
| 43 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 section | compound |
| 44 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 team | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 floor | punct |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 floor | det |
| 47 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 section | appos |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 song | det |
| 49 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 song | amod |
| 50 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 stands | nsubj |
| 51 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 floor | acl:relcl |
| 52 | on | on | ADV | _ | 51 stands | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 team | 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 | is a | present | a band | a team | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | everyone | a job | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | the drums | the beat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | play | present | the bass | the low notes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | ||||
| 5 | play | present | a guitar or keyboard | chords | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chord=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | present | someone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | the bass and drums | the rhythm section | together property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | stand on | present | the whole song | the floor not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer floor=Stimulus |
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:004-starting-a-band.lesson:0.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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