--- title: Opera is a play where the story is sung, with an orchestra; theatres… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics description: Opera is a play where the story is sung, with an orchestra; theatres often show translated words on a screen called surtitles, and many opera houses sell cheap tickets for young people. Who acts: Opera, theatres, screen, many opera houses. A sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/12/) [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/) / [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/) / 12 # Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 12 Opera is a play where the story is sung, with an orchestra; theatres often show translated words on a screen called surtitles, and many opera houses sell cheap tickets for young people. **Who acts:** Opera, theatres, screen, many opera houses · **What happens:** be, sing, show, translate, call, sell · **To what, where:** play, story, translated words, screen, surtitles, cheap tickets · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Opera, theatres, screen, many opera houses), 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:12 # text = Opera is a play where the story is sung, with an orchestra; theatres often show translated words on a screen called surtitles, and many opera houses sell cheap tickets for young people. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Opera Opera PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 orchestra orchestra NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 theatres theatre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 18 translated translate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 surtitles surtitle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 opera opera NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sell sell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 tickets ticket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Opera | a play | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · passive | | the story | | | | with a orchestra | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **show** | present | theatres | translated words | | a screen | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient | | 4 | **translate** | participle | | | | | | | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **call** | participle | a screen *not said here* | surtitles | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sell** | present | many opera houses | cheap tickets | | | | for young people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme for people=Asset | 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:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:12`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/11/) - next →: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/)