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title: That is why the shiny metal saxophone is a woodwind (it uses a reed,… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics
description: That is why the shiny metal saxophone is a woodwind (it uses a reed, a thin vibrating strip of cane) and the metal flute is a woodwind too (you blow across an edge), while the trumpet is brass because your lips must buzz. Who acts: That, shiny metal saxophone, saxophone, metal flute. A sentence of t
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# Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 1

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That is why the shiny metal saxophone is a woodwind (it uses a reed, a thin vibrating strip of cane) and the metal flute is a woodwind too (you blow across an edge), while the trumpet is brass because your lips must buzz.

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**Who acts:** That, shiny metal saxophone, saxophone, metal flute, you, trumpet · **What happens:** be, use, vibrate, blow, buzz · **To what, where:** woodwind, reed, edge, brass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» 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 (That, shiny metal saxophone, saxophone, metal flute), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson:1
# text = That is why the shiny metal saxophone is a woodwind (it uses a reed, a thin vibrating strip of cane) and the metal flute is a woodwind too (you blow across an edge), while the trumpet is brass because your lips must buzz.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	saxophone	saxophone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	woodwind	woodwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	vibrating	vibrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	woodwind	woodwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
31	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	across	across	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	_
45	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	buzz	buzz	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the shiny metal saxophone | a woodwind and a woodwind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | present | saxophone | a reed |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reed=Patient |
| 4 | **vibrate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the metal flute | a woodwind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **blow** | present | you |  |  | a edge |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | present | the trumpet | brass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **buzz** | must | your lips |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R6-punct-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.

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