Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 10
Percussion means instruments that are hit, shaken or scraped; some, like the xylophone and the timpani (big orchestra drums tuned to notes), play real notes.
Who acts: Percussion, big orchestra drums, some · What happens: mean, hit, shake, scrape, tune, play · To what, where: instruments, timpani, real notes
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 (Percussion, big orchestra drums, some), 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 | Percussion | percussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 hit | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hit | aux:pass |
| 6 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 instruments | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shaken | punct |
| 8 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hit | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 scraped | cc |
| 10 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hit | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 xylophone | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 play | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 xylophone | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 xylophone | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 xylophone | det |
| 16 | xylophone | xylophone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 some | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 timpani | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 timpani | det |
| 19 | timpani | timpani | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 xylophone | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 drums | punct |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 drums | amod |
| 22 | orchestra | orchestra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drums | compound |
| 23 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tuned | nsubj |
| 24 | tuned | tune | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 timpani | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 notes | case |
| 26 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tuned | obl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 tuned | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 play | punct |
| 29 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | conj |
| 30 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 notes | amod |
| 31 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 play | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | 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 | mean | present | Percussion | instruments | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hit | present · passive | instruments | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | shake | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | scrape | participle | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | tune | past | big orchestra drums | the timpani not said here | to notes | tree rules | |||
| 6 | play | present | some | real notes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=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:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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