--- title: Singing "flat" means slightly lower than the right note, and singers… — Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback · tree and pragmatics description: Singing "flat" means slightly lower than the right note, and singers often cannot hear it in their own voice, so a teacher's ear or a recording helps. Who acts: Singing, singers, ear. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Singing, singers, ear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:038-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback.lesson:14 # text = Singing "flat" means slightly lower than the right note, and singers often cannot hear it in their own voice, so a teacher's ear or a recording helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 038-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 3 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 ccomp _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 recording recording NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | flat | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flat=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | Singing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **hear** | can | singers | note | | singers's own voice | | often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **help** | present | a teacher's ear or a recording | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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](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:038-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback.lesson:14`. **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 ×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. 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