--- title: Most bands begin with covers, songs written by other people, with ch… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics description: Most bands begin with covers, songs written by other people, with cheap gear or even pots and buckets, and with a short plan for each practice; skills come from playing, not from shopping. Who acts: Most bands, skills. A sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» of the arts course of Mova's primary s --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Starting a band, sentence 2 Most bands begin with covers, songs written by other people, with cheap gear or even pots and buckets, and with a short plan for each practice; skills come from playing, not from shopping. **Who acts:** Most bands, skills · **What happens:** begin, write, come, play · **To what, where:** songs 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 (Most bands, skills), 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:2 # text = Most bands begin with covers, songs written by other people, with cheap gear or even pots and buckets, and with a short plan for each practice; skills come from playing, not from shopping. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 covers cover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:agent _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 buckets bucket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 det _ _ 29 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 31 skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | Most bands | | | | | with covers and songs; with cheap gear or pots and buckets | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with cover=Subeventuality | | 2 | **write** | participle | | songs *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | present | skills | | | | | with a short plan for each practice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Starting a band, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/1/) - next →: [Starting a band, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/)