Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 14

Singing with a sore throat can strain the voice and make it worse; singers rest, drink water and avoid shouting.

Who acts: Singing, singers · What happens: sing, strain, make, rest, drink, avoid · To what, where: voice, water

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 (Singing, singers), 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	Singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 strain	csubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 throat	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 throat	det
4	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 throat	amod
5	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	obl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 strain	aux
7	strain	strain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 voice	det
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strain	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 strain	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 make	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 strain	punct
15	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rest	nsubj
16	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 strain	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drink	punct
18	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rest	conj
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drink	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 avoid	cc
21	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rest	conj
22	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 avoid	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 strain	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			with a sore throat	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with throat=Theme
2	strain	can	Singing	the voice		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Source
3	make	infinitive	Singing not said here	voice	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	rest	present	singers			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	drink	present	singers not said here	water		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
6	avoid	present	singers not said here			vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	shout speech: express	gerund	singers not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:14.

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, R3-conj-first ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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