--- title: Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the lou… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics description: Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, to balance the sound. Who acts: Orchestras. A sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Instrument families: strings, wind, br…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/) / 12 # Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 12 Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, to balance the sound. **Who acts:** Orchestras · **What happens:** seat, balance · **To what, where:** quieter strings, front, sound 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 (Orchestras), 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:12 # text = Orchestras usually seat the quieter strings at the front and the louder brass and percussion at the back, to balance the sound. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1 1 Orchestras orchestra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 seat seat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 quieter quieter ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 percussion percussion NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 balance balance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **seat** | present | Orchestras | the quieter strings and the louder brass at the back and percussion | | the front | | usually *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location string=Value | | 2 | **balance** | to-infinitive | Orchestras *not said here* | the sound | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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