--- title: Balance means getting each part at the right volume so every part ca… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics description: Balance means getting each part at the right volume so every part can be heard; being loudest does not make you sound best. Who acts: Balance, you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Starting a band](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/) / 11 # Starting a band, sentence 11 Balance means getting each part at the right volume so every part can be heard; being loudest does not make you sound best. **Who acts:** Balance, you · **What happens:** mean, get, hear, be, not make, not sound · **To what, where:** part, right volume, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Balance, you), 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:11 # text = Balance means getting each part at the right volume so every part can be heard; being loudest does not make you sound best. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 loudest loud ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 csubj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **mean** | present | Balance | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **get** | gerund | | each part | | the right volume | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent part=Theme at volume=Asset | | 3 | **hear** | can · passive | | every part | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | loud *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **sound** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Starting a band, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/10/) - next →: [Starting a band, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/)