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title: Picture the first recorder lesson: thirty children blow as hard as t… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture the first recorder lesson: thirty children blow as hard as they can and the room sounds like a flock of angry geese; nothing is broken, the recorder just wants a soft, steady breath, like cooling hot soup. Who acts: you, thirty children, room, recorder. A sentence of the lesson «Music lesson
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 2

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Picture the first recorder lesson: thirty children blow as hard as they can and the room sounds like a flock of angry geese; nothing is broken, the recorder just wants a soft, steady breath, like cooling hot soup.

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**Who acts:** you, thirty children, room, recorder · **What happens:** picture, blow, sound, break, want, cool · **To what, where:** first recorder lesson, nothing, soft steady breath, hot soup

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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 (you, thirty children, room, recorder), 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:2
# text = Picture the first recorder lesson: thirty children blow as hard as they can and the room sounds like a flock of angry geese; nothing is broken, the recorder just wants a soft, steady breath, like cooling hot soup.
# 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	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	geese	geese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
42	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | the first recorder lesson |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | present | thirty children |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sound** | present | the room |  |  |  |  | like a flock of angry geese | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **break** | present · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **want** | present | the recorder | a soft steady breath |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot breath=Theme |
| 6 | **cool** | gerund | you *not said here* | hot soup |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=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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**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:2`.

**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/).

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