--- title: The producer shapes how the record sounds, choosing instruments and… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics description: The producer shapes how the record sounds, choosing instruments and making the big decisions; mixing balances the tracks, and mastering is the final polish so it sounds right on phones, speakers and radio. Who acts: producer, record, mixing, mastering. 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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 (producer, record, mixing, mastering), 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:3 # text = The producer shapes how the record sounds, choosing instruments and making the big decisions; mixing balances the tracks, and mastering is the final polish so it sounds right on phones, speakers and radio. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 producer producer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shapes shape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 decisions decision NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 mixing mixing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 balances balance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 mastering mastering NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 final final ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 polish polish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 right right ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 speakers speaker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shape** | present | the producer | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | the record | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **choose** | gerund | the producer *not said here* | instruments | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme | | 4 | **make** | gerund | the producer *not said here* | the big decisions | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decision=Product | | 5 | **balance** | present | mixing | the tracks | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location track=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | mastering | the final polish | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sound** | present | mastering | | | phones and speakers and radio | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location | 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. 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