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title: Drums are practised at agreed times with a practice pad or quiet sti… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: Drums are practised at agreed times with a practice pad or quiet sticks, so family and neighbours are not disturbed. 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 9

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Drums are practised at agreed times with a practice pad or quiet sticks, so family and neighbours are not disturbed.

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**What happens:** practise, agree, not disturb · **To what, where:** Drums, family

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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: 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:9
# text = Drums are practised at agreed times with a practice pad or quiet sticks, so family and neighbours are not disturbed.
# 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	Drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pad	pad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | present · passive |  | Drums |  |  | time | with a practice pad or quiet sticks | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **disturb** | present · passive |  | family and neighbours |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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:9`.

**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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