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title: Some songwriters start with words, some with a tune or chords, some… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics
description: Some songwriters start with words, some with a tune or chords, some with a beat; there is no single correct way. Who acts: songwriters, single correct way. A sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 5

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Some songwriters start with words, some with a tune or chords, some with a beat; there is no single correct way.

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**Who acts:** songwriters, single correct way · **What happens:** start, be

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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 (songwriters, single correct way), 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:5
# text = Some songwriters start with words, some with a tune or chords, some with a beat; there is no single correct way.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	songwriters	songwriter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chords	chord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
22	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **start** | present | some songwriters |  |  |  |  | with words; with a tune or chords and some beat | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with word=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **be** | present | no single correct way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:5`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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