Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 9

The diaphragm is a big muscle under the lungs that helps you breathe in; "singing from the diaphragm" means steady breath support, not shouting.

Who acts: diaphragm, big muscle, you, singing · What happens: be, help, breathe in, sing, mean, not shout · To what, where: big muscle, lungs, you, diaphragm, steady breath support · 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 (diaphragm, big muscle, you, singing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 diaphragm	det
2	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 muscle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 muscle	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 muscle	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 muscle	amod
6	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 lungs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lungs	det
9	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 muscle	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 helps	nsubj
11	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 muscle	acl:relcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 helps	obj
13	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 helps	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 breathe	compound:prt
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 singing	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 singing	punct
17	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 means	csubj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 diaphragm	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 diaphragm	det
20	diaphragm	diaphragm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 singing	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 singing	punct
22	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 muscle	parataxis
23	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 support	amod
24	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 support	compound
25	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 means	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shouting	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 shouting	advmod
28	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 support	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 muscle	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the diaphragm	a big muscle	the lungs	tree rules
2	help	present	a big muscle	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	breathe in	infinitive	you not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express in a quote	gerund			the diaphragm	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mean	present	singing	steady breath support		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Topic
6	not shout speech: express	gerund	singing 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:9.

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): 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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