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title: In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to lowest they are violin, viola, cello and double bass. Who acts: bigger instruments, instruments. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, sentence 10

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In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to lowest they are violin, viola, cello and double bass.

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**Who acts:** bigger instruments, instruments · **What happens:** play, be · **To what, where:** string family, lowest violin, highest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» 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 (bigger instruments, instruments), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:10
# text = In the string family bigger instruments play lower: from highest to lowest they are violin, viola, cello and double bass.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 041-olympiad-music-puzzles.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	violin	violin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	viola	viola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	cello	cello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **play** | present | bigger instruments |  |  | the string family |  | low *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | instruments *= instrument* | lowest violin and viola and cello and double bass |  | highest |  |  | tree rules |

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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:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:10`.

**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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