--- title: A class of beginners sounds rough at first because everyone is learn… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics description: A class of beginners sounds rough at first because everyone is learning breath, fingers and timing at once; after weeks of practice the same class can sound clear and together. Who acts: class, everyone, same class. A sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Music lessons and the recorder](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/) / 13 # Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 13 A class of beginners sounds rough at first because everyone is learning breath, fingers and timing at once; after weeks of practice the same class can sound clear and together. **Who acts:** class, everyone, same class · **What happens:** sound, learn · **To what, where:** breath 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 (class, everyone, same class), 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:13 # text = A class of beginners sounds rough at first because everyone is learning breath, fingers and timing at once; after weeks of practice the same class can sound clear and together. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 beginners beginner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 learning learn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 13 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:compound 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 timing timing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 12 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 30 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 together together ADV RB _ 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | a class of beginners | | | | | rough *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Location | | 2 | **learn** | present · progressive | everyone | breath and fingers and timing | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Topic | | 3 | **sound** | can | the same class | | | | week | clear *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:13`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/12/) - next →: [Music lessons and the recorder, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/)