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title: Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, a… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, and many swap solos around during the year. Who acts: Teachers, many. A sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 15

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Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, and many swap solos around during the year.

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**Who acts:** Teachers, many · **What happens:** give, swap around · **To what, where:** solo, child, solos

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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 (Teachers, many), 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:15
# text = Teachers often give a solo to the child most ready for that piece, and many swap solos around during the year.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	solo	solo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJS:Degree=Sup
10	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	solos	solo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
20	during	during	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Teachers | a solo | the child |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent solo=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **swap around** | present | many | solos |  |  | year | around *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solo=Theme |

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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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**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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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