Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 3

Some instruments do not fit one box: a piano has strings struck by hammers when you press keys, so people argue whether it is strings or percussion, and many just call it a keyboard instrument.

Who acts: instruments, piano, you, people, many · What happens: not fit, have, strike, press, argue, be · To what, where: one box, strings, keys, piano · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (instruments, piano, you, people), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 instruments	det
2	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fit	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fit	advmod
5	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 box	nummod
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fit	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 piano	det
10	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	parataxis
12	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 has	obj
13	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 strings	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 hammers	case
15	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 struck	obl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 press	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 press	nsubj
18	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 struck	advcl
19	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 press	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 argue	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 argue	advmod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 argue	nsubj
23	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fit	parataxis
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 strings	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 strings	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 strings	cop
27	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 argue	ccomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 percussion	cc
29	percussion	percussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 strings	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 call	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 call	cc
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 call	nsubj
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 call	advmod
34	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 argue	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 call	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 instrument	det
37	keyboard	keyboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 instrument	compound
38	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 call	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fit	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fit	present · do-support	some instruments	one box		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient
2	have	present	a piano	strings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
3	strike	participle		strings not said here	by hammers	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hammer=Location
4	press	present	you	keys		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme
5	argue speech: disagree	present	people			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	piano	strings or percussion		tree rules
7	call	present	many	piano		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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:3.

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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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