Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 8
Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; blowing without buzzing gives just a hiss.
Who acts: Brass players, blowing · What happens: buzz, blow, give · To what, where: lips, mouthpiece, hiss
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 (Brass players, blowing), 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 | Brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 players | compound |
| 2 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buzz | nsubj |
| 3 | buzz | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lips | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buzz | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 mouthpiece | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouthpiece | det |
| 8 | mouthpiece | mouthpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buzz | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 buzz | punct |
| 10 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 gives | csubj |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 buzzing | mark |
| 12 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 blowing | advcl |
| 13 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 buzz | conj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 hiss | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hiss | det |
| 16 | hiss | hiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gives | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buzz | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | present | Brass players | players's lips | the mouthpiece | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lip=Theme | |||
| 2 | blow | gerund | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | buzz | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | give | present | blowing | a hiss | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiss=Theme |
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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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