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title: The recorder is a real instrument: composers such as Bach, Handel an… — Music lessons and the recorder · tree and pragmatics
description: The recorder is a real instrument: composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi wrote music for it, and professional recorder players still perform today. Who acts: recorder, composers, professional recorder players. A sentence of the lesson «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts course of Mova'
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# Music lessons and the recorder, sentence 7

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The recorder is a real instrument: composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi wrote music for it, and professional recorder players still perform today.

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**Who acts:** recorder, composers, professional recorder players · **What happens:** be, write, perform · **To what, where:** real instrument, music

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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, composers, professional recorder players), 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:7
# text = The recorder is a real instrument: composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi wrote music for it, and professional recorder players still perform today.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	composers	composer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	Bach	Bach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Handel	Handel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Vivaldi	Vivaldi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
27	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the recorder | a real instrument and composers such Bach and Handel and Vivaldi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | past | composers such Bach and Handel and Vivaldi *not said here* | music |  |  |  | for music | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent music=Result for it=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **perform** | present | professional recorder players |  |  |  | still; today |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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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