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title: In a studio each part goes on its own track, so one singer can recor… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics
description: In a studio each part goes on its own track, so one singer can record the main tune and then five harmonies on top; picture a girl singing in a choir of herself. Who acts: part, one singer, girl. A sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» of the arts course of Mova'
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# How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 2

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In a studio each part goes on its own track, so one singer can record the main tune and then five harmonies on top; picture a girl singing in a choir of herself.

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**Who acts:** part, one singer, girl · **What happens:** go, record, picture, sing · **To what, where:** studio, main tune, girl, choir

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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 (part, one singer, girl), 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:2
# text = In a studio each part goes on its own track, so one singer can record the main tune and then five harmonies on top; picture a girl singing in a choir of herself.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	studio	studio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	record	record	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	harmonies	harmony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **go** | present | each part |  |  | a studio |  | on part's own track | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in studio=Location |
| 2 | **record** | can | one singer | the main tune and five harmonies on top |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme |
| 3 | **picture** | infinitive |  | a girl |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a girl *not said here* |  |  | a choir of singer |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in choir=Location |

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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): no change. **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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