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title: Blowing too hard makes a recorder jump up to a shrill squeal; a soft… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: Blowing too hard makes a recorder jump up to a shrill squeal; a soft, steady breath gives a clear note. Who acts: Blowing, recorder, soft steady breath. 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 o
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 5

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Blowing too hard makes a recorder jump up to a shrill squeal; a soft, steady breath gives a clear note.

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**Who acts:** Blowing, recorder, soft steady breath · **What happens:** blow, make, jump up, give · **To what, where:** recorder, clear note

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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 (Blowing, recorder, soft steady breath), 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:5
# text = Blowing too hard makes a recorder jump up to a shrill squeal; a soft, steady breath gives a clear note.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	squeal	squeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Blowing | a recorder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **jump up** | infinitive | a recorder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a shrill squeal *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to squeal=Result |
| 4 | **give** | present | a soft steady breath | a clear note |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=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:5`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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