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title: Songs from someone's youth can bring back strong memories, which is… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics
description: Songs from someone's youth can bring back strong memories, which is why music is used in care homes and with people with dementia. Who acts: Songs, strong memories. A sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 15

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Songs from someone's youth can bring back strong memories, which is why music is used in care homes and with people with dementia.

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**Who acts:** Songs, strong memories · **What happens:** bring back, be, use · **To what, where:** strong memories, music, care homes

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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 (Songs, strong memories), 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:15
# text = Songs from someone's youth can bring back strong memories, which is why music is used in care homes and with people with dementia.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dementia	dementia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **bring back** | can | Songs from someone's youth | strong memories |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | strong memories |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | music |  | care homes and people with dementia |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:011-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs.lesson:15`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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