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title: Family puzzles hide a trap: a shiny metal saxophone or flute looks l… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Family puzzles hide a trap: a shiny metal saxophone or flute looks like brass, but the family depends on HOW the sound is made, not on what the instrument is made of. Who acts: Family puzzles, shiny metal saxophone, family. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts course of
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# Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, sentence 2

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Family puzzles hide a trap: a shiny metal saxophone or flute looks like brass, but the family depends on HOW the sound is made, not on what the instrument is made of.

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**Who acts:** Family puzzles, shiny metal saxophone, family · **What happens:** hide, look, depend, make · **To what, where:** trap, sound, instrument

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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 (Family puzzles, shiny metal saxophone, family), 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:2
# text = Family puzzles hide a trap: a shiny metal saxophone or flute looks like brass, but the family depends on HOW the sound is made, not on what the instrument is made of.
# 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): no change
1	Family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	saxophone	saxophone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Family puzzles | a trap |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | a shiny metal saxophone or flute |  |  |  |  | like brass | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **depend** | present | the family |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present · passive |  | the sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **make** | present · passive |  | the instrument |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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**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.

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