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title: Flutes used to be made of wood and some still are; the sound comes f… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Flutes used to be made of wood and some still are; the sound comes from blowing across an edge, so the flute is a woodwind. Who acts: Flutes, sound, flute. A sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its depe
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# Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 7

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Flutes used to be made of wood and some still are; the sound comes from blowing across an edge, so the flute is a woodwind.

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**Who acts:** Flutes, sound, flute · **What happens:** use, make, come, blow, be · **To what, where:** edge, woodwind

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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 (Flutes, sound, flute), 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:7
# text = Flutes used to be made of wood and some still are; the sound comes from blowing across an edge, so the flute is a woodwind.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Flutes	flute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	conj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:cop
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	woodwind	woodwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **use** | past | Flutes |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | Flutes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **come** | present | the sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | gerund | the sound *not said here* |  |  | a edge |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the flute | a woodwind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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