--- title: Your voice is an instrument you carry everywhere: breath from the lu… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Your voice is an instrument you carry everywhere: breath from the lungs makes the vocal folds in your throat shake, and steady breath, not shouting, is what makes a voice strong and in tune. Who acts: voice, you, breath, vocal folds. 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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 (voice, you, breath, vocal folds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:0 # text = Your voice is an instrument you carry everywhere: breath from the lungs makes the vocal folds in your throat shake, and steady breath, not shouting, is what makes a voice strong and in tune. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 7 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 vocal vocal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 32 nsubj _ _ 32 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Your voice | a instrument | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | present | you | a instrument *not said here* | | | | everywhere *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | breath from the lungs | the vocal folds | | your throat | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shake** | infinitive | the vocal folds *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | breath from the lungs *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **make** | present | | a voice | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material voice=Product | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:arts:008-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [How a song is made: writing, recording…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/7-how-a-song-is-made-writing-recording-producing/16/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)