--- title: On the recorder, B, A and G are played with the left hand alone and… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics description: On the recorder, B, A and G are played with the left hand alone and need one, two and three fingers, so teachers start with them instead of going in alphabet order. Who acts: teachers. 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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 (teachers), 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:12 # text = On the recorder, B, A and G are played with the left hand alone and need one, two and three fingers, so teachers start with them instead of going in alphabet order. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 recorder recorder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 B B PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 A A PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 G G PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 alone alone ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 33 mark _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 alphabet alphabet NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present · passive | | B and G | | the recorder | | with the left hand | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: subject=Theme with hand=Co-Agent | | 2 | **need** | present | | one and three fingers | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | | 3 | **start** | present | teachers | | | | | with B | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality | | 4 | **go** | gerund | teachers *not said here* | | | alphabet order | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=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](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:12`. **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): R8-pos-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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/11/) - next →: [Music lessons and the recorder, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/)