Starting a band, sentence 8
A cover is a song written by someone else; an original is one the band wrote itself.
Who acts: cover, original, band · What happens: be, write · To what, where: song, one, band
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 (cover, original, band), 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 cover | det |
| 2 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 song | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 song | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 song | det |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 song | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 someone | case |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 written | obl |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 someone | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 original | det |
| 12 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 song | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 band | det |
| 16 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wrote | nsubj |
| 17 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 wrote | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 song | 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 cover | a song | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | participle | a song not said here | by someone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a original | one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write | past | the band | band | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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