Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 1
That is why the shiny metal saxophone is a woodwind (it uses a reed, a thin vibrating strip of cane) and the metal flute is a woodwind too (you blow across an edge), while the trumpet is brass because your lips must buzz.
Who acts: That, shiny metal saxophone, saxophone, metal flute, you, trumpet · What happens: be, use, vibrate, blow, buzz · To what, where: woodwind, reed, edge, brass
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 (That, shiny metal saxophone, saxophone, metal flute), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 saxophone | det |
| 5 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saxophone | amod |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saxophone | compound |
| 7 | saxophone | saxophone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woodwind | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 woodwind | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woodwind | det |
| 10 | woodwind | woodwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 why | ccomp |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 uses | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 uses | nsubj |
| 13 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 woodwind | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 reed | det |
| 15 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 uses | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strip | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 strip | det |
| 18 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 strip | amod |
| 19 | vibrating | vibrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 strip | amod |
| 20 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reed | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cane | case |
| 22 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 strip | nmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 uses | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 woodwind | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 flute | det |
| 26 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flute | compound |
| 27 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 woodwind | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 woodwind | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 woodwind | det |
| 30 | woodwind | woodwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woodwind | conj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 woodwind | advmod |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 blow | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 blow | nsubj |
| 34 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 woodwind | conj |
| 35 | across | across | ADP | _ | 37 edge | case |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 edge | det |
| 37 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blow | obl |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 blow | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 brass | punct |
| 40 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 44 brass | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 trumpet | det |
| 42 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 brass | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 brass | cop |
| 44 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woodwind | advcl |
| 45 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 49 buzz | mark |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 lips | nmod:poss |
| 47 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 buzz | nsubj |
| 48 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 buzz | aux |
| 49 | buzz | buzz | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 brass | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, indirect=0, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the shiny metal saxophone | a woodwind and a woodwind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present | saxophone | a reed | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reed=Patient | ||||
| 4 | vibrate | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | the metal flute | a woodwind | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | blow | present | you | a edge | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | the trumpet | brass | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | buzz | must | your lips | vn animal_sounds-38 «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:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson:1.
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. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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