Starting a band, sentence 14
Pointing the microphone away from the speakers or turning it down stops feedback.
Who acts: Pointing · What happens: point, turn down, stop · To what, where: microphone, feedback
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 (Pointing), 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 | Pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stops | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 microphone | det |
| 3 | microphone | microphone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pointing | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Pointing | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 speakers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 speakers | det |
| 7 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 away | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 turning | cc |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Pointing | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turning | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 turning | compound:prt |
| 12 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stops | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | gerund | the microphone | away property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microphone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn down | gerund | microphone | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | Pointing | feedback | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality feedback=Eventuality |
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:14.
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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