Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 9

The violin, viola, cello and double bass are all string instruments played with a bow or plucked; bigger ones play lower notes, and the cello and double bass are so big that they stand on the floor instead of resting under the chin like a violin.

Who acts: violin, bigger ones, cello · What happens: be, play, pluck, stand, rest · To what, where: string instruments, lower notes, floor, chin

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 (violin, bigger ones, cello), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 violin	det
2	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 instruments	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 viola	punct
4	viola	viola	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 violin	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cello	punct
6	cello	cello	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 violin	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bass	cc
8	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bass	amod
9	bass	bass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 violin	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 instruments	cop
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 instruments	det
12	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 instruments	compound
13	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 instruments	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 bow	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bow	det
17	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 played	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 plucked	cc
19	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 played	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
21	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 ones	amod
22	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 play	nsubj
23	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 instruments	parataxis
24	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 notes	amod
25	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 play	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 big	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 big	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cello	det
29	cello	cello	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 big	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bass	cc
31	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bass	amod
32	bass	bass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cello	conj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 big	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 big	advmod
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 instruments	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 stand	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 stand	nsubj
38	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 big	advcl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 floor	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 floor	det
41	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stand	obl
42	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	44 resting	mark
43	of	of	ADP	_	42 instead	fixed
44	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 stand	advcl
45	under	under	ADP	_	47 chin	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 chin	det
47	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 resting	obl
48	like	like	ADP	_	50 violin	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 violin	det
50	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 resting	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 instruments	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the violin and viola and cello and double bass	all string instruments			tree rules
2	play	participle		all string instruments not said here		with a bow	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=Theme
3	pluck	participle					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	play	present	bigger ones	lower notes			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
5	is	present	the cello and double bass			big property	tree rules
6	stand	present	violin		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
7	rest	gerund	violin not said here		the chin	like a violin	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under chin=Location

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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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