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title: Picture walking into a concert hall: everyone is screeching and toot… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture walking into a concert hall: everyone is screeching and tooting at once; that is not the music but tuning up, like footballers stretching before a match; the oboe plays a note called A, everyone matches it, and the noise stops when the conductor walks on. Who acts: you, everyone, that, footb
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# Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 1

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Picture walking into a concert hall: everyone is screeching and tooting at once; that is not the music but tuning up, like footballers stretching before a match; the oboe plays a note called A, everyone matches it, and the noise stops when the conductor walks on.

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**Who acts:** you, everyone, that, footballers, oboe, noise · **What happens:** picture, walk, screech, toot, not be, tune up · **To what, where:** concert hall, music, footballers, note · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» 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, everyone, that, footballers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:1
# text = Picture walking into a concert hall: everyone is screeching and tooting at once; that is not the music but tuning up, like footballers stretching before a match; the oboe plays a note called A, everyone matches it, and the noise stops when the conductor walks on.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	xcomp	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	screeching	screech	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tooting	toot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tuning	tune	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	oboe	oboe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	A	A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	xcomp	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	41	nsubj	_	_
41	matches	match	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
48	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	51	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	conductor	conductor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
52	on	on	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a concert hall *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hall=Result |
| 3 | **screech** | present · progressive | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **toot** | gerund | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | that | the music |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tune up** | gerund | you *not said here* | footballers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stretch** | gerund | footballers *not said here* |  |  |  | before a match |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **play** | present | the oboe | a note |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
| 9 | **call** | participle |  | a note *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **match** | present | everyone | music |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 11 | **stop** | present | the noise |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 12 | **walk on** | present | the conductor |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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): R7-rel-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.

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