--- title: Schools start with the recorder because it is cheap, light and quick… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics description: Schools start with the recorder because it is cheap, light and quick to learn, and it teaches breathing, fingers, reading notes and playing together, which carry over to drums, guitar or anything you pick later. Who acts: Schools, recorder, you. A sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the record --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 3 Schools start with the recorder because it is cheap, light and quick to learn, and it teaches breathing, fingers, reading notes and playing together, which carry over to drums, guitar or anything you pick later. **Who acts:** Schools, recorder, you · **What happens:** start, be, learn, teach, read, play · **To what, where:** breathing, notes, drums 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 (Schools, recorder, you), 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:3 # text = Schools start with the recorder because it is cheap, light and quick to learn, and it teaches breathing, fingers, reading notes and playing together, which carry over to drums, guitar or anything you pick later. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 recorder recorder NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 breathing breathing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 25 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 28 together together ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 over over ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 guitar guitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:appos 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 conj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Schools | | | | | with the recorder | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with recorder=Subeventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | recorder | | | | | cheap *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | recorder *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | recorder *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **learn** | to-infinitive | recorder *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | recorder | breathing and fingers | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent breathing=Recipient | | 7 | **read** | gerund | recorder *not said here* | notes | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Topic | | 8 | **play** | gerund | recorder *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **carry over** | present | | | | drums and guitar | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to drum=Destination | | 10 | **pick** | present | you | | | | | late *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/2/) - next →: [Music lessons and the recorder, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/)