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title: Water dripping from a recorder is condensation: warm, wet breath coo… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: Water dripping from a recorder is condensation: warm, wet breath cools inside the pipe and turns back into drops, just like a cold window steaming up; to clear the drops, cover the window (the small gap under the mouthpiece) and blow sharply. Who acts: Water, warm wet breath, cold window. A sentence
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 11

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Water dripping from a recorder is condensation: warm, wet breath cools inside the pipe and turns back into drops, just like a cold window steaming up; to clear the drops, cover the window (the small gap under the mouthpiece) and blow sharply.

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**Who acts:** Water, warm wet breath, cold window · **What happens:** drip, be, cool, turn back, steam up, clear · **To what, where:** recorder, condensation, pipe, drops, window

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» 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 (Water, warm wet breath, cold window), 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:11
# text = Water dripping from a recorder is condensation: warm, wet breath cools inside the pipe and turns back into drops, just like a cold window steaming up; to clear the drops, cover the window (the small gap under the mouthpiece) and blow sharply.
# 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	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
5	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	condensation	condensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	steaming	steam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	cover	cover	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
43	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	mouthpiece	mouthpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	42	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
49	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drip** | gerund | Water *not said here* | a recorder |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | Water |  |  | condensation |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cool** | present | warm wet breath |  |  | the pipe |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **turn back** | present | warm wet breath *not said here* |  |  | drops |  | like a cold window | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **steam up** | gerund | a cold window *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **clear** | to-infinitive | warm wet breath *not said here* | the drops |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent drop=Source |
| 7 | **cover** | infinitive | warm wet breath *not said here* | the window |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Destination |
| 8 | **blow** | infinitive | warm wet breath *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sharply *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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