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title: Before an orchestra plays, the players tune up: usually the oboe pla… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics
description: Before an orchestra plays, the players tune up: usually the oboe plays the note A and everyone matches it so their instruments agree. Who acts: orchestra, players, oboe, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 5

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Before an orchestra plays, the players tune up: usually the oboe plays the note A and everyone matches it so their instruments agree.

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**Who acts:** orchestra, players, oboe, everyone, instruments · **What happens:** play, tune up, match, agree · **To what, where:** note A, oboe

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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 (orchestra, players, oboe, everyone), 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:5
# text = Before an orchestra plays, the players tune up: usually the oboe plays the note A and everyone matches it so their instruments agree.
# 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 ×3
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	orchestra	orchestra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tune	tune	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
11	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	oboe	oboe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
20	matches	match	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **play** | present | a orchestra |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tune up** | present | the players |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | present | the oboe | the note A |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Theme |
| 4 | **match** | present | everyone | oboe |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | players's instruments |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R5-strong ×3. **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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