Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 16
Vibrato is a controlled wobble in the voice that singers use on purpose, different from a nervous shake.
Who acts: Vibrato, singers · What happens: control, be, use · To what, where: controlled wobble, voice, purpose, nervous shake
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 (Vibrato, 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 | Vibrato | Vibrato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wobble | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wobble | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wobble | det |
| 4 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wobble | amod |
| 5 | wobble | wobble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wobble | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 use | obj |
| 10 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | nsubj |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 voice | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 purpose | case |
| 13 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 use | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 different | punct |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wobble | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 shake | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shake | det |
| 18 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shake | amod |
| 19 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 different | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wobble | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | control | participle | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Vibrato | a controlled wobble | the voice | tree rules | |||
| 3 | use | present | singers | the voice | purpose | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 4 | be | Vibrato not said here | a nervous shake | tree rules |
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:16.
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): 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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