Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons, sentence 1
Most film sounds are not recorded with the pictures: footsteps, punches and rustling coats are often added later by Foley artists, who stomp on gravel or snap celery in a studio while watching the screen.
Who acts: Foley artists · What happens: not record, rustle, add, stomp, snap, watch · To what, where: Most film sounds, coats, footsteps, gravel, studio, screen
This is a sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» 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 (Foley artists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 sounds | amod |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounds | compound |
| 3 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 recorded | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 recorded | advmod |
| 6 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pictures | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pictures | det |
| 9 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 recorded | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 footsteps | punct |
| 11 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 added | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 punches | punct |
| 13 | punches | punch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 footsteps | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rustling | cc |
| 15 | rustling | rustle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 footsteps | conj |
| 16 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rustling | obj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 added | aux:pass |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 added | advmod |
| 19 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 recorded | parataxis |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 added | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 artists | case |
| 22 | Foley | Foley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 artists | compound |
| 23 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 added | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stomp | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 stomp | nsubj |
| 26 | stomp | stomp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 artists | acl:relcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 gravel | case |
| 28 | gravel | gravel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stomp | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 celery | cc |
| 30 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 stomp | conj |
| 31 | celery | celery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gravel | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 studio | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 studio | det |
| 34 | studio | studio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 snap | obl |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 watching | mark |
| 36 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 snap | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 screen | det |
| 38 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 watching | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 recorded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not record | present · passive | Most film sounds | with the pictures | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rustle | gerund | Foley artists not said here | coats | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | present · passive | Foley artists | footsteps and punches | late, often property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | stomp | present | Foley artists | gravel or celery | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on gravel=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | snap | present | Foley artists not said here | a studio | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in studio=Location | ||||
| 6 | watch | gerund | Foley artists not said here | the screen | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screen=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, 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:024-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons.lesson:1.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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.
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