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title: The tuba is the biggest and lowest brass instrument, and the trumpet… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tuba is the biggest and lowest brass instrument, and the trumpet is small and high; the player's size does not matter. Who acts: tuba, trumpet, size. A sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 11

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The tuba is the biggest and lowest brass instrument, and the trumpet is small and high; the player's size does not matter.

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**Who acts:** tuba, trumpet, size · **What happens:** be, not matter

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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 (tuba, trumpet, size), 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:11
# text = The tuba is the biggest and lowest brass instrument, and the trumpet is small and high; the player's size does not matter.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tuba	tuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
8	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | the tuba |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the tuba *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the trumpet |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the trumpet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | the player's size |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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