--- title: There is no one right order: some writers start with words, some wit… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics description: There is no one right order: some writers start with words, some with a tune, a chord pattern or a beat, and many hits began as one line or a few notes hummed into a phone. Who acts: one right order, writers, many hits. 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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 (one right order, writers, many hits), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson:1 # text = There is no one right order: some writers start with words, some with a tune, a chord pattern or a beat, and many hits began as one line or a few notes hummed into a phone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 4 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 chord chord NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 hits hit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl 30 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nsubj 37 hummed hum VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no one right order | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **start** | present | some writers | | | | | with words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with word=Subeventuality | | 3 | **begin** | past | many hits | | | | | as one line and a few notes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **hum** | past | no one right order *not said here* | | | a phone | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into phone=Recipient | 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:007-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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. 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