Starting a band, sentence 2

Most bands begin with covers, songs written by other people, with cheap gear or even pots and buckets, and with a short plan for each practice; skills come from playing, not from shopping.

Who acts: Most bands, skills · What happens: begin, write, come, play · To what, where: songs

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 (Most bands, skills), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 bands	amod
2	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begin	nsubj
3	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 covers	case
5	covers	cover	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begin	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 songs	punct
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 covers	conj
8	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 songs	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 people	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 written	obl:agent
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gear	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 gear	case
14	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gear	amod
15	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begin	obl
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 pots	cc
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 pots	advmod
18	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gear	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 buckets	cc
20	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pots	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 come	cc
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 plan	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 plan	det
25	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plan	amod
26	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 practice	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 practice	det
29	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plan	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 plan	punct
31	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 come	nsubj
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 begin	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 playing	case
34	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 come	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shopping	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 shopping	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 shopping	case
38	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 playing	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	present	Most bands		with covers and songs; with cheap gear or pots and buckets	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cover=Subeventuality
2	write	participle		songs not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	skills		with a short plan for each practice	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	gerund				vn performance-26.7-1 «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:004-starting-a-band.lesson:2.

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, R7-rel-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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