--- title: Picture a family photo of strings: violin, viola, cello and double b… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a family photo of strings: violin, viola, cello and double bass, from small to huge; in every family the bigger ones play lower notes, like a tiny dog yapping and a big dog woofing. Who acts: you, bigger ones, tiny dog, big dog. 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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 (you, bigger ones, tiny dog, big dog), 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:2 # text = Picture a family photo of strings: violin, viola, cello and double bass, from small to huge; in every family the bigger ones play lower notes, like a tiny dog yapping and a big dog woofing. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 violin violin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 viola viola NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 cello cello NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 double double ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 bass bass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 amod _ _ 27 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 29 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 yapping yap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 acl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 woofing woof VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 conj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a family photo of strings and violin and viola and cello and double bass | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | | 2 | **play** | present | the bigger ones | lower notes | | every family | | like a tiny dog | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | | 3 | **yap** | gerund | a tiny dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **woof** | gerund | a big dog | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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): 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. 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