Starting a band, sentence 3
Bands break up over bossiness, no-shows and volume wars, so good bands turn up, share decisions and play at a level where everyone can be heard, and protect their ears from loud drums.
Who acts: Bands, good bands · What happens: break up, turn up, share, play, hear, protect · To what, where: bossiness, decisions, level, everyone, ears
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 (Bands, good bands), 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 | Bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 break | nsubj |
| 2 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 break | compound:prt |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 bossiness | case |
| 5 | bossiness | bossiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 break | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shows | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 shows | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 no | punct |
| 9 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bossiness | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wars | cc |
| 11 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wars | compound |
| 12 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shows | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 turn | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bands | amod |
| 16 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 turn | nsubj |
| 17 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 break | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 turn | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 share | punct |
| 20 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 turn | conj |
| 21 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 share | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 play | cc |
| 23 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 break | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 level | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 level | det |
| 26 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 play | obl |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 heard | advmod |
| 28 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 heard | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 heard | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 heard | aux:pass |
| 31 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 level | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 protect | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 protect | cc |
| 34 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 play | conj |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 ears | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 protect | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 drums | case |
| 38 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 drums | amod |
| 39 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 protect | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break up | present | Bands | bossiness and no shows and volume wars | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn up | present | good bands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | share | present | good bands not said here | decisions | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | play | present | Bands not said here | a level | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | hear | can · passive | everyone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | protect | infinitive | Bands not said here | decisions's ears | from loud drums | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Beneficiary from drum=Theme |
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:3.
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, R8-pos-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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