Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 10
True tone deafness, called amusia, is reported to be rare; most people can learn to sing in tune much better with practice.
Who acts: most people · What happens: call, report, be, learn, sing · To what, where: True tone deafness, tune · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (most people), 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 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deafness | amod |
| 2 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deafness | compound |
| 3 | deafness | deafness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 amusia | punct |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 amusia | amod |
| 6 | amusia | amusia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deafness | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 deafness | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reported | aux:pass |
| 9 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rare | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 rare | cop |
| 12 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reported | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 learn | punct |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 learn | aux |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 reported | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sing | mark |
| 19 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 learn | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tune | case |
| 21 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sing | obl |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 better | advmod |
| 23 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 sing | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 practice | case |
| 25 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 better | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | report | present · passive | True tone deafness | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | rare property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | learn | can | most people | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | most people not said here | tune | well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tune=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:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:10.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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