Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 13

Lip-syncing means moving your lips to a recording instead of singing live; there have been reported cases of famous singers lip-syncing at big events, and people argue whether it is cheating or a sensible way to protect a big show from going wrong.

Who acts: Lip syncing, famous singers, people, syncing, big show · What happens: mean, move, sing, report, sync, argue · To what, where: lips, recording, cases, big events, big show · 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 (Lip syncing, famous singers, people, syncing), 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	Lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 syncing	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Lip	punct
3	syncing	sync	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lips	nmod:poss
7	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 moving	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 recording	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 recording	det
10	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moving	obl
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 singing	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 moving	advcl
14	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 singing	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 reported	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 reported	expl
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reported	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 reported	aux
19	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	parataxis
20	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 reported	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 singers	case
22	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 singers	amod
23	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cases	nmod
24	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 syncing	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 lip	punct
26	syncing	sync	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 singers	acl:relcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 events	case
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 events	amod
29	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 syncing	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 argue	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 argue	cc
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 argue	nsubj
33	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reported	conj
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	37 cheating	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cheating	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 cheating	aux
37	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 argue	ccomp
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 way	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 way	det
40	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 way	amod
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cheating	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 protect	mark
43	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 way	acl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 show	det
45	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 show	amod
46	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 protect	obj
47	from	from	SCONJ	_	48 going	mark
48	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 show	acl
49	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	48 going	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Lip syncing				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	move not said to happen	gerund	Lip syncing not said here	your lips	a recording		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lip=Theme to recording=Trajectory
3	sing speech: express	gerund	Lip syncing not said here			live property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	report	present · perfect · passive		cases of famous singers	there		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient
5	sync	gerund	famous singers not said here		big events		tree rules
6	argue speech: disagree	present	people				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	cheat	present · progressive	syncing = sync				vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	protect	to-infinitive	syncing = sync not said here	a big show			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Beneficiary
9	go	gerund	a big show not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:13.

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 ×3, 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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