--- title: Percussion means instruments that are hit, shaken or scraped; some,… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics description: Percussion means instruments that are hit, shaken or scraped; some, like the xylophone and the timpani (big orchestra drums tuned to notes), play real notes. Who acts: Percussion, big orchestra drums, some. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Percussion, big orchestra drums, some), 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:10 # text = Percussion means instruments that are hit, shaken or scraped; some, like the xylophone and the timpani (big orchestra drums tuned to notes), play real notes. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Percussion percussion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 shaken shake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 scraped scrape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 xylophone xylophone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 timpani timpani NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 orchestra orchestra NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 tuned tune VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Percussion | instruments | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Topic | | 2 | **hit** | present · passive | | instruments | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | | 3 | **shake** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **scrape** | participle | | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **tune** | past | big orchestra drums | the timpani *not said here* | | | | to notes | tree rules | | 6 | **play** | present | some | real notes | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | 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. **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:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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