Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 5
Nerves make breath short and the voice shaky, even in good singers; slow breathing before singing helps calm the voice.
Who acts: Nerves, slow breathing · What happens: make, sing, help, calm · To what, where: breath, good singers, voice
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 (Nerves, slow breathing), 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 | Nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 make | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shaky | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shaky | nsubj |
| 8 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 short | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 singers | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 singers | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 singers | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 singers | amod |
| 13 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 breathing | punct |
| 15 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 breathing | amod |
| 16 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | nsubj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 singing | case |
| 18 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 breathing | nmod |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | parataxis |
| 20 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helps | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 voice | det |
| 22 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calm | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Nerves | breath | good singers | short property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breath=Product | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | help | present | slow breathing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | calm | infinitive | slow breathing not said here | the voice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus voice=Experiencer |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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