Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 3

Most people who think they are "tone deaf" just have not practised; real tone deafness is rare, nerves make even good voices shake, and a sore throat needs rest, not a big push.

Who acts: Most people, people, real tone deafness, nerves, good voices, sore throat · What happens: think, be, not practise, make, shake, need · To what, where: rest · 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, people, real tone deafness, nerves), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 practised	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 people	acl:relcl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deaf	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 deaf	cop
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 deaf	punct
8	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deaf	compound
9	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 think	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 deaf	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 practised	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 practised	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 practised	advmod
14	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 rare	punct
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deafness	amod
17	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deafness	compound
18	deafness	deafness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rare	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 rare	cop
20	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 practised	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
22	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 make	nsubj
23	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 practised	advcl
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 voices	amod
26	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shake	nsubj
27	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 needs	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 needs	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 throat	det
31	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 throat	amod
32	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 needs	nsubj
33	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 practised	conj
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 needs	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 push	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 push	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 push	det
38	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 push	amod
39	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rest	appos
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 practised	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Most people			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	people		deaf property	tree rules
3	not practise	present · perfect	Most people			tree rules
4	is	present	real tone deafness		rare property	tree rules
5	make	present	nerves			tree rules
6	shake	infinitive	good voices			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	need	present	a sore throat	rest		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=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:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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