Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback, sentence 14

Singing "flat" means slightly lower than the right note, and singers often cannot hear it in their own voice, so a teacher's ear or a recording helps.

Who acts: Singing, singers, ear · What happens: sing, mean, not hear, help · To what, where: flat, note, own voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» 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 (Singing, singers, ear), 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	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	csubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flat	punct
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Singing	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flat	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	7 lower	advmod
7	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 means	ccomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 note	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 note	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 note	amod
11	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lower	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hear	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 singers	cc
14	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hear	nsubj
15	often	often	ADV	_	18 hear	advmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hear	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 hear	advmod
18	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hear	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 voice	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 voice	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 voice	amod
23	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hear	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 helps	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	33 helps	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 teacher	det
27	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ear	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 teacher	case
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 helps	nsubj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 recording	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 recording	det
32	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ear	conj
33	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		flat			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flat=Theme
2	mean	present	Singing				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	not hear	can	singers	note	singers's own voice	often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	help	present	a teacher's ear or a recording				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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:038-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback.lesson:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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.

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