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title: Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; the trumpet, trom… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; the trumpet, trombone, horn and tuba are brass. Who acts: Brass players, trumpet. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, sentence 9

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Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; the trumpet, trombone, horn and tuba are brass.

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**Who acts:** Brass players, trumpet · **What happens:** buzz, be · **To what, where:** lips, mouthpiece, brass

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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 (Brass players, trumpet), 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:9
# text = Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; the trumpet, trombone, horn and tuba are brass.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buzz	buzz	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mouthpiece	mouthpiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	trombone	trombone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tuba	tuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **buzz** | present | Brass players | woodwind's lips |  | the mouthpiece |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lip=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the trumpet and trombone and horn and tuba | brass |  |  |  |  | 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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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