Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 11
The tuba is the biggest and lowest brass instrument, and the trumpet is small and high; the player's size does not matter.
Who acts: tuba, trumpet, size · What happens: be, not matter
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 (tuba, trumpet, size), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tuba | det |
| 2 | tuba | tuba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 biggest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 biggest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 instrument | det |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 instrument | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lowest | cc |
| 7 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 biggest | conj |
| 8 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 instrument | compound |
| 9 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 small | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 small | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trumpet | det |
| 13 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 small | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 small | cop |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 instrument | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 high | cc |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 small | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 matter | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 player | det |
| 20 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 size | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 player | case |
| 22 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 matter | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 matter | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 matter | advmod |
| 25 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 instrument | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 instrument | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the tuba | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the tuba not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the trumpet | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the trumpet not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not matter | present · do-support | the player's size | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:11.
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, 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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