--- title: To improvise means to make up music as you play, within the song's c… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics description: To improvise means to make up music as you play, within the song's chords and rhythm; good improvisers have practised for years. Who acts: you, good improvisers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good improvisers), 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:13 # text = To improvise means to make up music as you play, within the song's chords and rhythm; good improvisers have practised for years. # 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 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 improvise improvise VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 csubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 within within ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 chords chord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 rhythm rhythm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 improvisers improviser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 practised practise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **improvise** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | music | | | | within the song's chords and rhythm | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme music=Pivot | | 4 | **play** | present | you | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **practise** | present · perfect | good improvisers | | | | year | | tree rules | 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:13`. **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. **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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/12/) - next →: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/)