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title: Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their f… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks. Who acts: Recorder players, hard fingertips, gaps. A sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 6

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Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.

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**Who acts:** Recorder players, hard fingertips, gaps · **What happens:** cover, leave, make · **To what, where:** holes, gaps, squeaks

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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 (Recorder players, hard fingertips, gaps), 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:6
# text = Recorder players cover the holes with the soft, flat pads of their fingers, because hard fingertips leave gaps that make squeaks.
# 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): no change
1	Recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
20	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **cover** | present | Recorder players | the holes |  |  |  | with the soft flat pads of players's fingers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Destination with pad=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | present | hard fingertips | gaps |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | gaps | squeaks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset squeak=Product |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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