Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 7

Flutes used to be made of wood and some still are; the sound comes from blowing across an edge, so the flute is a woodwind.

Who acts: Flutes, sound, flute · What happens: use, make, come, blow, be · To what, where: edge, woodwind

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 (Flutes, sound, flute), 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	Flutes	flute	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 made	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 used	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 some	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 made	conj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 are	advmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 comes	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sound	det
14	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comes	nsubj
15	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 used	parataxis
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 blowing	mark
17	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 comes	advcl
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 edge	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blowing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 woodwind	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	27 woodwind	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 flute	det
24	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 woodwind	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 woodwind	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 woodwind	det
27	woodwind	woodwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	Flutes				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive · passive	Flutes not said here			of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
3	come	present	the sound				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow	gerund	the sound not said here		a edge		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	is a	present	the flute	a woodwind			tree rules

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:7.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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