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title: Dubbing means recording new voices in another language; some countri… — Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons · tree and pragmatics
description: Dubbing means recording new voices in another language; some countries prefer subtitles, the written words at the bottom of the screen. Who acts: Dubbing, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons, sentence 8

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Dubbing means recording new voices in another language; some countries prefer subtitles, the written words at the bottom of the screen.

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**Who acts:** Dubbing, countries · **What happens:** mean, record, prefer, write · **To what, where:** new voices, language, subtitles

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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 (Dubbing, countries), 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:8
# text = Dubbing means recording new voices in another language; some countries prefer subtitles, the written words at the bottom of the screen.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Dubbing	dubbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	recording	record	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	subtitles	subtitle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Dubbing |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **record** *not said to happen* | gerund | Dubbing *not said here* | new voices |  | another language |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme in language=Destination |
| 3 | **prefer** | present | some countries | subtitles |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subtitle=Stimulus |
| 4 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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