--- title: Many famous bands changed their names early on, and it is smart to c… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics description: Many famous bands changed their names early on, and it is smart to check nobody else already uses a name. Who acts: Many famous bands, nobody, decisions. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Starting a band, sentence 5 Many famous bands changed their names early on, and it is smart to check nobody else already uses a name. **Who acts:** Many famous bands, nobody, decisions · **What happens:** change, be, check, use, name · **To what, where:** names, name 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, nobody, decisions), 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:5 # text = Many famous bands changed their names early on, and it is smart to check nobody else already uses a name. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj _ _ 17 else else ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 already already ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | past | Many famous bands | decisions's names | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Many famous bands *not said here* | | | | | smart *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | present | nobody | a name | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | | 5 | **name** | | decisions *= decision* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:5`. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/4/) - next →: [Starting a band, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/)