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title: A boy in New York practised the drums for hours every day without ea… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in New York practised the drums for hours every day without ear protection; after a few months he had ringing in his ears that would not go away. Who acts: boy, ears. A sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Music practice and ball games, sentence 19

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A boy in New York practised the drums for hours every day without ear protection; after a few months he had ringing in his ears that would not go away.

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**Who acts:** boy, ears · **What happens:** practise, have, ring, not go away · **To what, where:** drums, ears

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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 (boy, ears), 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:19
# text = A boy in New York practised the drums for hours every day without ear protection; after a few months he had ringing in his ears that would not go away.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
5	York	York	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	practised	practise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **practise** | past | a boy in New York | the drums |  |  | day; hour | without ear protection | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | boy |  |  |  | month |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ring** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  | boy's ears |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 4 | **not** **go away** | would | boy's ears |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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:19`.

**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. **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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