Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 6

Many boys sing very high before their voices change; cathedral choirs have high voices called trebles, and boys' voices usually drop in the teenage years.

Who acts: Many boys, voices, cathedral choirs, high voices · What happens: sing, change, have, call, drop · To what, where: high voices, trebles · 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 (Many boys, voices, cathedral choirs, high voices), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boys	amod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	parataxis
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sing	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 change	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 voices	nmod:poss
8	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 change	nsubj
9	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 choirs	punct
11	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 choirs	compound
12	choirs	choir	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 voices	amod
15	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 voices	acl
17	trebles	treble	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 called	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drop	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drop	cc
20	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 voices	nmod:poss
21	'	's	PART	_	20 boys	case
22	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drop	nsubj
23	usually	usually	ADV	_	24 drop	advmod
24	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 years	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 years	det
27	teenage	teenage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 years	amod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 drop	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	Many boys			high property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	change	present	boys's voices				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	cathedral choirs	high voices			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
4	call	participle	high voices not said here	trebles			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drop	present	boys's voices		year	usually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:6.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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