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title: Musicians' earplugs make sound quieter but still clear, and many mus… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics
description: Musicians' earplugs make sound quieter but still clear, and many musicians wear them on stage. Who acts: earplugs, many musicians. A sentence of the lesson «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Concerts, orchestras and live gigs, sentence 8

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Musicians' earplugs make sound quieter but still clear, and many musicians wear them on stage.

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**Who acts:** earplugs, many musicians · **What happens:** make, wear · **To what, where:** sound, earplugs, stage

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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 (earplugs, many musicians), 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:8
# text = Musicians' earplugs make sound quieter but still clear, and many musicians wear them on stage.
# 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	Musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	earplugs	earplug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	musicians	musician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | present | Musicians's earplugs | sound |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
| 2 | **wear** | present | many musicians | earplugs *= earplug* |  | stage |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |

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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:8`.

**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/).

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