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description: The family of an instrument depends on how the sound is made: the saxophone is made of brass but is a woodwind because it uses a reed, and the flute is a woodwind because the player blows across an edge. Who acts: family, sound, flute, player. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» o
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# Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, sentence 8

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The family of an instrument depends on how the sound is made: the saxophone is made of brass but is a woodwind because it uses a reed, and the flute is a woodwind because the player blows across an edge.

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**Who acts:** family, sound, flute, player · **What happens:** depend, make, be, use, blow · **To what, where:** sound, saxophone, woodwind, reed, edge

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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, sound, flute, player), 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:8
# text = The family of an instrument depends on how the sound is made: the saxophone is made of brass but is a woodwind because it uses a reed, and the flute is a woodwind because the player blows across an edge.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	saxophone	saxophone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woodwind	woodwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	woodwind	woodwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
36	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
40	across	across	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	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 | **depend** | present | the family of a instrument |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | the sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | the saxophone |  |  |  | of brass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a woodwind and a woodwind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | present | sound | a reed |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reed=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the flute | a woodwind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **blow** | present | the player |  |  | a edge |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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:8`.

**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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