--- title: Tonguing means starting each note by touching the tongue behind the… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics description: Tonguing means starting each note by touching the tongue behind the teeth, as if quietly saying "doo", so the notes come out clean and separate. Who acts: notes. 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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 (notes), 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:10 # text = Tonguing means starting each note by touching the tongue behind the teeth, as if quietly saying "doo", so the notes come out clean and separate. # 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 1 Tonguing tongue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 behind behind ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 doo doo NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 26 out out ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tongue** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **start** *not said to happen* | gerund | | each note | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Eventuality | | 4 | **touch** | gerund | | the tongue | | the teeth | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tongue=Co-Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | doo | | | | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent doo=Topic | | 6 | **come out** | infinitive | the notes | | | | | clean, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:10`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/8/) - next →: [Music lessons and the recorder, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/)