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title: Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the lou… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, and before playing everyone tunes to an A, usually given by the oboe. Who acts: Orchestras, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary 
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# Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, sentence 11

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Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, and before playing everyone tunes to an A, usually given by the oboe.

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**Who acts:** Orchestras, everyone · **What happens:** seat, play, tune, give · **To what, where:** quieter strings, front, A

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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 (Orchestras, everyone), 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:11
# text = Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, and before playing everyone tunes to an A, usually given by the oboe.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Orchestras	orchestra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	seat	seat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	percussion	percussion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
23	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tunes	tune	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	oboe	oboe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:agent	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **seat** | present | Orchestras | the quieter strings and the louder brass at the back and percussion |  | the front |  | usually *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location string=Value |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tune** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  | to a A | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | participle |  | a A *not said here* |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:11`.

**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 ×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/).

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