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title: A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot r… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics
description: A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot rehearse full songs if people do not turn up. Who acts: rehearsal, band, people. A sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Starting a band, sentence 10

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A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot rehearse full songs if people do not turn up.

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**Who acts:** rehearsal, band, people · **What happens:** be, not rehearse, not turn up · **To what, where:** practice session, full songs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» 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 (rehearsal, band, people), 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:10
# text = A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot rehearse full songs if people do not turn up.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rehearsal	rehearsal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	session	session	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	rehearse	rehearse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a rehearsal | a practice session |  |  |  | for a performance | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **rehearse** | can | a band | full songs |  |  |  |  | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **turn up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:004-starting-a-band.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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