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title: You ask before touching instruments in a music shop, because they ar… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: You ask before touching instruments in a music shop, because they are expensive and belong to the shop. Who acts: You, neighbours. A sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Music practice and ball games, sentence 12

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You ask before touching instruments in a music shop, because they are expensive and belong to the shop.

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**Who acts:** You, neighbours · **What happens:** ask, touch, be, belong · **To what, where:** instruments, music shop

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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 (You, neighbours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:12
# text = You ask before touching instruments in a music shop, because they are expensive and belong to the shop.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.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	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | You *not said here* | instruments |  | a music shop |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme instrument=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | neighbours *= neighbour* |  |  |  |  | expensive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | present | neighbours *= neighbour* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the shop | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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