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title: Cinemas can be very loud; covering your ears or using earplugs is fi… — Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons · tree and pragmatics
description: Cinemas can be very loud; covering your ears or using earplugs is fine, and some cinemas have "relaxed screenings", with quieter sound and the lights not fully off. Who acts: Cinemas, covering. A sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's prim
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# Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons, sentence 13

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Cinemas can be very loud; covering your ears or using earplugs is fine, and some cinemas have "relaxed screenings", with quieter sound and the lights not fully off.

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**Who acts:** Cinemas, covering · **What happens:** be, cover, use, have · **To what, where:** ears, earplugs, relaxed screenings

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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 (Cinemas, covering), 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:13
# text = Cinemas can be very loud; covering your ears or using earplugs is fine, and some cinemas have "relaxed screenings", with quieter sound and the lights not fully off.
# 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	Cinemas	cinema	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
12	earplugs	earplug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	cinemas	cinema	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	screenings	screening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	quieter	quiet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	off	off	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Cinemas |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund |  | your ears |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination |
| 3 | **use** | gerund |  | earplugs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earplug=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | covering |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | some cinemas | relaxed screenings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screening=Patient |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:024-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons.lesson:13`.

**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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