Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 16
The family of an instrument depends on how the sound is made, not on its material.
Who acts: family · What happens: depend, make · To what, where: sound, material
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 (family), 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 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 depends | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 instrument | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 instrument | det |
| 5 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 family | nmod |
| 6 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 made | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 depends | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 material | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 material | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 material | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 material | nmod:poss |
| 17 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | the family of a instrument | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | the sound | sound's material | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:16.
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): no change. 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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