Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 2
Picture a family photo of strings: violin, viola, cello and double bass, from small to huge; in every family the bigger ones play lower notes, like a tiny dog yapping and a big dog woofing.
Who acts: you, bigger ones, tiny dog, big dog · What happens: picture, play, yap, woof · To what, where: family photo, lower notes, family
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 (you, bigger ones, tiny dog, big dog), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 photo | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 photo | compound |
| 4 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 strings | case |
| 6 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 photo | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 violin | punct |
| 8 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strings | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 viola | punct |
| 10 | viola | viola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 violin | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cello | punct |
| 12 | cello | cello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 violin | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bass | cc |
| 14 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bass | amod |
| 15 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 violin | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 small | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 small | case |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 huge | case |
| 20 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 small | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 play | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 family | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 family | det |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 play | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ones | det |
| 26 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 ones | amod |
| 27 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 play | nsubj |
| 28 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 29 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 notes | amod |
| 30 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 play | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 yapping | punct |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 dog | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dog | det |
| 34 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dog | amod |
| 35 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 play | obl |
| 36 | yapping | yap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 dog | acl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 woofing | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 dog | det |
| 39 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 dog | amod |
| 40 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 woofing | nsubj |
| 41 | woofing | woof | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 yapping | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a family photo of strings and violin and viola and cello and double bass | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | present | the bigger ones | lower notes | every family | like a tiny dog | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | ||
| 3 | yap | gerund | a tiny dog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | woof | gerund | a big dog | 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:2.
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): R7-rel-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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