How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 14

The hook is the catchiest bit of a song, often in the chorus; writing a good hook takes real skill.

Who acts: hook, writing · What happens: be, write, take · To what, where: catchiest bit, good hook, real skill

This is a sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» 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 (hook, writing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hook	det
2	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	catchiest	catchy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 song	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 song	det
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chorus	punct
11	often	often	ADV	_	14 chorus	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 chorus	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chorus	det
14	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 skill	punct
16	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 takes	csubj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hook	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hook	amod
19	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 writing	obj
20	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	parataxis
21	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 skill	amod
22	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 takes	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bit	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the hook	the catchiest bit and the chorus	of a song	tree rules
2	write	gerund		a good hook		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Theme
3	take	present	writing	real skill		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=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:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.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): 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.

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