--- title: Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; blowing without b… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics description: Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; blowing without buzzing gives just a hiss. Who acts: Brass players, blowing. 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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 (Brass players, blowing), 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:8 # text = Brass players buzz their lips into the mouthpiece; blowing without buzzing gives just a hiss. # 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): no change 1 Brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 buzz buzz VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mouthpiece mouthpiece NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 buzzing buzz VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hiss hiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buzz** | present | Brass players | players's lips | | the mouthpiece | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lip=Theme | | 2 | **blow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **buzz** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | present | blowing | a hiss | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiss=Theme | 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. 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