--- title: A band is a team where everyone has a job: the drums keep the beat,… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics description: A band is a team where everyone has a job: the drums keep the beat, the bass plays the low notes, a guitar or keyboard plays chords, and someone sings; the bass and drums together are the rhythm section, the floor the whole song stands on. Who acts: band, everyone, drums, bass. 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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 (band, everyone, drums, bass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:0 # text = A band is a team where everyone has a job: the drums keep the beat, the bass plays the low notes, a guitar or keyboard plays chords, and someone sings; the bass and drums together are the rhythm section, the floor the whole song stands on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 004-starting-a-band.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bass bass NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 guitar guitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 keyboard keyboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 30 chords chord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 nsubj _ _ 34 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bass bass NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 40 together together ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 rhythm rhythm NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 section section NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 appos _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:amod 50 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 acl:relcl _ _ 52 on on ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a band | a team | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | everyone | a job | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | present | the drums | the beat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme | | 4 | **play** | present | the bass | the low notes | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | | 5 | **play** | present | a guitar or keyboard | chords | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chord=Theme | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | someone | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 7 | **is a** | present | the bass and drums | the rhythm section | | | | together *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **stand on** | present | the whole song | the floor *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer floor=Stimulus | 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:004-starting-a-band.lesson:0`. **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, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Practising when you would rather not, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/17/) - next →: [Starting a band, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/)