--- title: Some instruments do not fit one box: a piano has strings struck by h… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics description: Some instruments do not fit one box: a piano has strings struck by hammers when you press keys, so people argue whether it is strings or percussion, and many just call it a keyboard instrument. Who acts: instruments, piano, you, people. 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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 (instruments, piano, you, people), 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:3 # text = Some instruments do not fit one box: a piano has strings struck by hammers when you press keys, so people argue whether it is strings or percussion, and many just call it a keyboard instrument. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hammers hammer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 press press VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 19 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 percussion percussion NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind 33 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 keyboard keyboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fit** | present · do-support | some instruments | one box | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | a piano | strings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient | | 3 | **strike** | participle | | strings *not said here* | | | | by hammers | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hammer=Location | | 4 | **press** | present | you | keys | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | piano | strings or percussion | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **call** | present | many | piano | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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