Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 0

Instruments are sorted into families by HOW they make their sound, not by what they are made of: strings shake strings, woodwinds use breath across an edge or on a reed, brass players buzz their lips, and percussion is hit, shaken or scraped.

Who acts: Instruments, strings, woodwinds, brass players · What happens: sort, make, shake, use, buzz, hit · To what, where: Instruments, families, sound, strings, breath, edge

This is a sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» 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 (Instruments, strings, woodwinds, brass players), 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	Instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sorted	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sorted	aux:pass
3	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 families	case
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sorted	obl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
7	HOW	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 make	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sorted	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sound	nmod:poss
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 what	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 sorted	conj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 what	acl:relcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 made	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 shake	punct
21	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shake	nsubj
22	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sorted	parataxis
23	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shake	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 use	punct
25	woodwinds	woodwind	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 use	nsubj
26	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 shake	conj
27	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 use	obj
28	across	across	ADP	_	30 edge	case
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 edge	det
30	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 use	obl
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 reed	cc
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 reed	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 reed	det
34	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 edge	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 buzz	punct
36	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 players	compound
37	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 buzz	nsubj
38	buzz	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 made	conj
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lips	nmod:poss
40	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 buzz	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hit	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hit	cc
43	percussion	percussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hit	nsubj:pass
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 hit	aux:pass
45	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 made	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 shaken	punct
47	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 hit	conj
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 scraped	cc
49	scraped	scrape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 shaken	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sorted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sort	present · passive		Instruments		into families goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme into family=Goal
2	make	present	Instruments = instrument	Instruments's sound			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product
3	make	present · passive		Instruments = instrument			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	shake	present	strings	strings			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent string=Patient
5	use	present	woodwinds	breath	a edge or a reed		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Patient
6	buzz	present	brass players	players's lips			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lip=Theme
7	hit	present · passive		percussion			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
8	shake	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
9	scrape	participle					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.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 ×2, R6-punct-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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