--- title: A recorder is a wooden or plastic pipe with holes; your breath split… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics description: A recorder is a wooden or plastic pipe with holes; your breath splits on a sharp edge near the top, the air inside the pipe shakes, and that shaking is the sound you hear. Who acts: recorder, breath, air, shaking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (recorder, breath, air, shaking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.lesson:0 # text = A recorder is a wooden or plastic pipe with holes; your breath splits on a sharp edge near the top, the air inside the pipe shakes, and that shaking is the sound you hear. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.lesson # annotation = 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 recorder recorder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 near near ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 inside inside ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 28 shakes shake VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 that that DET DT PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 shaking shake NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a recorder | a wooden pipe and the sound | | | | with holes | tree rules | | 2 | **split** | present | your breath | | | a sharp edge near the top | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **shake** | present | the air | | | pipe | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside pipe=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | that shaking | the sound | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** | present | you | the sound *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:001-music-lessons-and-the-recorder.lesson:0`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky mes…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/17/) - next →: [Music lessons and the recorder, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/)