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title: An electric guitar has a solid body and is quiet until it is plugged… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics
description: An electric guitar has a solid body and is quiet until it is plugged into an amplifier; an acoustic guitar has a hollow body that makes it louder without electricity. Who acts: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, hollow body. A sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percuss
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# Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 13

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An electric guitar has a solid body and is quiet until it is plugged into an amplifier; an acoustic guitar has a hollow body that makes it louder without electricity.

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**Who acts:** electric guitar, acoustic guitar, hollow body · **What happens:** have, be, plug, make · **To what, where:** solid body, guitar, amplifier, hollow body, body

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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 (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, hollow body), 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:13
# text = An electric guitar has a solid body and is quiet until it is plugged into an amplifier; an acoustic guitar has a hollow body that makes it louder without electricity.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	plugged	plug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	amplifier	amplifier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	acoustic	acoustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	xcomp	_	_
30	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a electric guitar | a solid body |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a electric guitar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **plug** | present · passive |  | guitar |  | a amplifier |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | present | a acoustic guitar | a hollow body |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | present | a hollow body | body |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:13`.

**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 ×1, 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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