How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 7
Auto-Tune is software that can fix slightly-off notes or, turned up, give a robotic effect on purpose; Cher's 1998 song "Believe" made that effect famous.
Who acts: Auto Tune, software, 1998 song, Cher · What happens: be, fix, turn up, give, believe, make · To what, where: software, off notes, robotic effect, purpose, effect
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 (Auto Tune, software, 1998 song, Cher), 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 | Auto | Auto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tune | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Auto | punct |
| 3 | Tune | Tune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 software | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 software | cop |
| 5 | software | software | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fix | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fix | aux |
| 8 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 software | acl:relcl |
| 9 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 11 off | advmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 slightly | punct |
| 11 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 notes | compound |
| 12 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fix | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 or | punct |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fix | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 turned | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fix | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 effect | det |
| 20 | robotic | robotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 effect | amod |
| 21 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 purpose | case |
| 23 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 25 | Cher | Cher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 song | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Cher | case |
| 27 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 song | nummod |
| 28 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | nsubj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Believe | punct |
| 30 | Believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 song | appos |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Believe | punct |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 software | parataxis |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 effect | det |
| 34 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 made | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 software | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Auto Tune | software | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | can | software | off notes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent note=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn up | participle | software not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | software not said here | a robotic effect | purpose | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent effect=Theme on purpose=Asset | |||
| 5 | believe in a quote | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | make | past | Cher's 1998 song | that effect | famous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effect=Product | |||
| 7 | sing | Cher | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson:7.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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