Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 5

A piano's strings are hit by small felt hammers when you press the keys, so people argue about its family and many call it a keyboard instrument.

Who acts: you, people, many · What happens: hit, feel, press, argue, call · To what, where: 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 (you, people, many), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piano	det
2	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strings	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 piano	case
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hit	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux:pass
6	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 hammers	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hammers	amod
9	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hammers	amod
10	hammers	hammer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hit	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 press	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 press	nsubj
13	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 keys	det
15	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 press	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 argue	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 argue	advmod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 argue	nsubj
19	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	parataxis
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 family	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 family	nmod:poss
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 argue	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 call	cc
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 call	nsubj
25	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 argue	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 call	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 instrument	det
28	keyboard	keyboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 instrument	compound
29	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 call	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit	present · passive		a piano's strings	by small felt hammers	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by hammer=Destination
2	feel	participle				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	press	present	you	the keys		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme
4	argue speech: disagree	present	people		about piano's family	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about family=Topic
5	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:5.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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