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title: Mixing sets the volume and sound of each track so they fit; masterin… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics
description: Mixing sets the volume and sound of each track so they fit; mastering is the final polish of the finished mix; they are separate steps. Who acts: Mixing, volume. A sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 15

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Mixing sets the volume and sound of each track so they fit; mastering is the final polish of the finished mix; they are separate steps.

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**Who acts:** Mixing, volume · **What happens:** set, fit, master, be, finish · **To what, where:** volume, final polish, separate steps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» 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 (Mixing, volume), 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:15
# text = Mixing sets the volume and sound of each track so they fit; mastering is the final polish of the finished mix; they are separate steps.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Mixing	mixing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	mastering	master	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	polish	polish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **set** | present | Mixing | the volume of each track and sound |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient volume=Result |
| 2 | **fit** | present | volume |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **master** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the final polish |  |  |  | of the finished mix | tree rules |
| 5 | **finish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is a** | present | volume | separate steps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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