How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 3
The producer shapes how the record sounds, choosing instruments and making the big decisions; mixing balances the tracks, and mastering is the final polish so it sounds right on phones, speakers and radio.
Who acts: producer, record, mixing, mastering · What happens: shape, sound, choose, make, balance, be · To what, where: instruments, big decisions, tracks, final polish, phones
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 (producer, record, mixing, mastering), 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 producer | det |
| 2 | producer | producer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shapes | nsubj |
| 3 | shapes | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sounds | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 record | det |
| 6 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounds | nsubj |
| 7 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shapes | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 choosing | punct |
| 9 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shapes | advcl |
| 10 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 choosing | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 making | cc |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 choosing | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 decisions | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 decisions | amod |
| 15 | decisions | decision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 making | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 balances | punct |
| 17 | mixing | mixing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 balances | nsubj |
| 18 | balances | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 choosing | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tracks | det |
| 20 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 balances | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 polish | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 polish | cc |
| 23 | mastering | mastering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 polish | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 polish | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 polish | det |
| 26 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 polish | amod |
| 27 | polish | polish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 balances | conj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 sounds | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sounds | nsubj |
| 30 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 polish | advcl |
| 31 | right | right | ADV | _ | 33 phones | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 phones | case |
| 33 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sounds | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 speakers | punct |
| 35 | speakers | speaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 phones | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 radio | cc |
| 37 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 phones | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shapes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | present | the producer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | the record | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | choose | gerund | the producer not said here | instruments | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the producer not said here | the big decisions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decision=Product | ||||
| 5 | balance | present | mixing | the tracks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location track=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | mastering | the final polish | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sound | present | mastering | phones and speakers and radio | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location |
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:3.
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.
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