How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 8
Many skilled singers use Auto-Tune as a tool or a style, so using it does not prove someone cannot sing; the fairest way to judge a singer is to hear them sing live.
Who acts: Many skilled singers, using, someone, fairest way · What happens: use, not prove, not sing, judge, be, sing · To what, where: Auto Tune, style, singer
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 (Many skilled singers, using, someone, fairest way), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 singers | amod |
| 2 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 singers | amod |
| 3 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Auto | Auto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tune | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Auto | punct |
| 7 | Tune | Tune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 tool | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tool | det |
| 10 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 use | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 style | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 style | det |
| 13 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tool | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 using | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 using | advmod |
| 16 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 prove | csubj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 using | obj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 prove | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 prove | advmod |
| 20 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | conj |
| 21 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 sing | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 sing | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sing | advmod |
| 24 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 prove | ccomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 hear | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hear | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 judge | mark |
| 30 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 way | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 singer | det |
| 32 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 judge | obj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 hear | cop |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 hear | mark |
| 35 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | parataxis |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hear | obj |
| 37 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 hear | xcomp |
| 38 | live | live | ADV | _ | 37 sing | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Many skilled singers | Auto Tune | as a tool or a style | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tune=Duration as tool=Attribute | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | style | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not prove | present · do-support | using | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not sing speech: express | can | someone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 5 | judge | to-infinitive | the fairest way not said here | a singer | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent singer=Value | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the fairest way | hear property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sing speech: express | infinitive | the fairest way not said here | live property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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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