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title: Many famous bands have split up after arguments about who decides th… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics
description: Many famous bands have split up after arguments about who decides things; good bands talk, vote or take turns. Who acts: Many famous bands, arguments, good bands. 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 eve
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# Starting a band, sentence 15

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Many famous bands have split up after arguments about who decides things; good bands talk, vote or take turns.

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**Who acts:** Many famous bands, arguments, good bands · **What happens:** split up, decide, talk, vote, take · **To what, where:** things, turns

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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 (Many famous bands, arguments, good bands), 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:15
# text = Many famous bands have split up after arguments about who decides things; good bands talk, vote or take turns.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	split	split	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	vote	vote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split up** | present · perfect | Many famous bands |  |  |  | after arguments |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** | present | arguments | things |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 3 | **talk** | present | good bands |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **vote** | present | good bands *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | present | good bands *not said here* | turns |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=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:15`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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