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title: The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the be… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics
description: The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the beat; the bass plays the low notes. Who acts: rhythm section, bass. 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 6

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The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the beat; the bass plays the low notes.

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**Who acts:** rhythm section, bass · **What happens:** be, hold, play · **To what, where:** bass, beat, low notes

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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 (rhythm section, bass), 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:6
# text = The rhythm section is the bass and drums together, which hold the beat; the bass plays the low notes.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | the rhythm section | the bass and drums |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | present | the bass and drums | the beat |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | present | the bass | the low notes |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=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:6`.

**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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