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title: Multitrack recording puts each part on its own track, so one singer… — How a song is made: writing, recording, producing · tree and pragmatics
description: Multitrack recording puts each part on its own track, so one singer can record many layers of harmony. Who acts: Multitrack recording, one singer. 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 tree and the
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# How a song is made: writing, recording, producing, sentence 9

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Multitrack recording puts each part on its own track, so one singer can record many layers of harmony.

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**Who acts:** Multitrack recording, one singer · **What happens:** put, record · **To what, where:** part, own track, many layers

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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 (Multitrack recording, one singer), 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:9
# text = Multitrack recording puts each part on its own track, so one singer can record many layers of harmony.
# 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
1	Multitrack	multitrack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	recording	recording	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	record	record	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **put** | present | Multitrack recording | each part |  | recording's own track |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme on track=Destination |
| 2 | **record** | can | one singer | many layers of harmony |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=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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**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. **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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