Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 12
Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, to balance the sound.
Who acts: Orchestras · What happens: seat, balance · To what, where: quieter strings, front, sound
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 (Orchestras), 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 | Orchestras | orchestra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seat | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 seat | advmod |
| 3 | seat | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strings | det |
| 5 | quieter | quieter | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 strings | amod |
| 6 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seat | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 front | det |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seat | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brass | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brass | det |
| 12 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 brass | amod |
| 13 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strings | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 percussion | cc |
| 15 | percussion | percussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brass | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 back | det |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brass | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 balance | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 balance | mark |
| 21 | balance | balance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seat | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sound | det |
| 23 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 balance | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seat | 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 | seat | present | Orchestras | the quieter strings and the louder brass at the back and percussion | the front | usually property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location string=Value | ||
| 2 | balance | to-infinitive | Orchestras not said here | the sound | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=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:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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