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title: In some films, especially older musicals, a different singer recorde… — Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons · tree and pragmatics
description: In some films, especially older musicals, a different singer recorded the songs for the actor; today many actors sing for themselves. Who acts: different singer, many actors. A sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons, sentence 11

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In some films, especially older musicals, a different singer recorded the songs for the actor; today many actors sing for themselves.

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**Who acts:** different singer, many actors · **What happens:** record, sing · **To what, where:** songs, films

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» 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 (different singer, many actors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:024-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons.lesson:11
# text = In some films, especially older musicals, a different singer recorded the songs for the actor; today many actors sing for themselves.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 024-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
5	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	musicals	musical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	recorded	record	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	actor	actor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | past | a different singer | the songs |  | some films and older musicals |  | for the actor | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent song=Theme in film=Destination |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | many actors |  |  |  | today | for actors *= actor* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for themselves=Recipient |

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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.

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**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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