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title: Voice actors can sound much younger or older than they are, and many… — Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons · tree and pragmatics
description: Voice actors can sound much younger or older than they are, and many children's voices in cartoons are done by adults. Who acts: Voice actors, actors, adults. A sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons, sentence 5

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Voice actors can sound much younger or older than they are, and many children's voices in cartoons are done by adults.

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**Who acts:** Voice actors, actors, adults · **What happens:** sound, be, do · **To what, where:** voices

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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 (Voice actors, actors, adults), 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:5
# text = Voice actors can sound much younger or older than they are, and many children's voices in cartoons are done by adults.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **sound** | can | Voice actors |  |  |  |  | young *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **does** | present | actors *= actor* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present · passive | adults | many children's voices in cartoons |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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: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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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