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title: A music producer guides how a recording sounds, choosing instruments… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics
description: A music producer guides how a recording sounds, choosing instruments, helping arrange the parts, running sessions and deciding on the final sound. Who acts: music producer, recording. A sentence of the lesson «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» of the arts course of Mova's primary sc
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# How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 6

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A music producer guides how a recording sounds, choosing instruments, helping arrange the parts, running sessions and deciding on the final sound.

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**Who acts:** music producer, recording · **What happens:** guide, sound, choose, help, arrange, run · **To what, where:** instruments, parts, sessions

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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 (music producer, recording), 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:6
# text = A music producer guides how a recording sounds, choosing instruments, helping arrange the parts, running sessions and deciding on the final sound.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	producer	producer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	guides	guide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	recording	recording	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
11	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
19	sessions	session	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	deciding	decide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **guide** | present | a music producer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | present | a recording |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **choose** | gerund | a music producer *not said here* | instruments |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | gerund | a music producer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **arrange** | infinitive | a music producer *not said here* | the parts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product |
| 6 | **run** | gerund | a music producer *not said here* | sessions |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme session=Trajectory |
| 7 | **decide** | gerund | a music producer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the final sound | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on sound=Topic |

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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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