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title: Music is tied to memory and feeling, so a song can make an old lady… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics
description: Music is tied to memory and feeling, so a song can make an old lady cry and laugh at once; and loud gigs need earplugs, while tickets should come from the official seller, not a tout. Who acts: song, old lady, loud gigs, tickets. A sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the a
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# Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 3

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Music is tied to memory and feeling, so a song can make an old lady cry and laugh at once; and loud gigs need earplugs, while tickets should come from the official seller, not a tout.

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**Who acts:** song, old lady, loud gigs, tickets · **What happens:** tie, make, cry, laugh, need, come · **To what, where:** Music, earplugs, official seller

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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 (song, old lady, loud gigs, tickets), 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:3
# text = Music is tied to memory and feeling, so a song can make an old lady cry and laugh at once; and loud gigs need earplugs, while tickets should come from the official seller, not a tout.
# 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): no change
1	Music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	gigs	gig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	earplugs	earplug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	tickets	ticket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	seller	seller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	tout	tout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **tie** | present · passive |  | Music |  |  |  | to memory and feeling | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to memory=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **make** | can | a song |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | a old lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | a old lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **need** | present | loud gigs | earplugs |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot earplug=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | should | tickets |  |  | the official seller |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from seller=Initial\_Location |

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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): no change. **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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