Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 1
Singers warm up with humming and lip trills (blowing "brrrr" through loose lips) so the voice works without strain; it looks like a stable of horses, but professionals do it before every show.
Who acts: Singers, lip trills, voice, professionals · What happens: warm up, blow, work, look, do · To what, where: brrrr, loose lips, voice
This is a sentence of the lesson «Singing, choirs and talent shows» 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 (Singers, lip trills, voice, professionals), 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 | Singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 warm | nsubj |
| 2 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 warm | compound:prt |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 humming | case |
| 5 | humming | humming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warm | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 trills | cc |
| 7 | lip | lip | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trills | amod |
| 8 | trills | trill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 humming | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 blowing | punct |
| 10 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 trills | acl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 brrrr | punct |
| 12 | brrrr | brrrr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blowing | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 brrrr | punct |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 lips | case |
| 15 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lips | amod |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blowing | obl |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 blowing | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 works | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 works | nsubj |
| 21 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 warm | advcl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 strain | case |
| 23 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 works | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 looks | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looks | nsubj |
| 26 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 warm | parataxis |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 stable | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 stable | det |
| 29 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looks | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 horses | case |
| 31 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stable | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 do | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 do | cc |
| 34 | professionals | professional | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 do | nsubj |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 warm | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 do | obj |
| 37 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 show | case |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 show | det |
| 39 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 do | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm up | present | Singers | with humming and lip trills | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with humming=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | lip trills not said here | brrrr | loose lips | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent brrrr=Patient | |||
| 3 | work | present | the voice | without strain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | present | voice | like a stable of horses | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | present | professionals | voice | before every show | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:1.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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