--- title: A piano's strings are hit by small felt hammers when you press the k… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics description: A piano's strings are hit by small felt hammers when you press the keys, so people argue about its family and many call it a keyboard instrument. Who acts: you, people, many. 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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, people, many), 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:5 # text = A piano's strings are hit by small felt hammers when you press the keys, so people argue about its family and many 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 hit hit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 felt feel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 hammers hammer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 press press VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 20 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 25 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 keyboard keyboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit** | present · passive | | a piano's strings | | | | by small felt hammers | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by hammer=Destination | | 2 | **feel** | participle | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **press** | present | you | the keys | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | about piano's family | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about family=Topic | | 5 | **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:5`. **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, 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. 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