--- title: Covering holes makes the shaking air column longer and the note lowe… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics description: Covering holes makes the shaking air column longer and the note lower, so every finger matters: one tiny gap and the note squeaks, like a straw that has split along the side. Who acts: Covering, finger, note. 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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 (Covering, finger, note), 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:1 # text = Covering holes makes the shaking air column longer and the note lower, so every finger matters: one tiny gap and the note squeaks, like a straw that has split along the side. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Covering cover VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 shaking shaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 column column NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 gap gap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 squeaks squeak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 split split VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 along along ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | gerund | | holes | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination | | 2 | **make** | present | Covering | the shaking air column and the note | | | | one tiny gap *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset column=Product | | 3 | **matter** | present | every finger | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **squeak** | present | the note | | | | | like a straw | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **split** | present · perfect · passive | | a straw | | | | along the side | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:1`. **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 ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Music lessons and the recorder, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/0/) - next →: [Music lessons and the recorder, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/)