--- title: Singers warm up with humming and lip trills (blowing "brrrr" through… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Singers warm up with humming and lip trills (blowing "brrrr" through loose lips) so the voice works without strain; it looks like a stable of horses, but professionals do it before every show. Who acts: Singers, lip trills, voice, professionals. 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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 (Singers, lip trills, voice, professionals), 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:1 # text = Singers warm up with humming and lip trills (blowing "brrrr" through loose lips) so the voice works without strain; it looks like a stable of horses, but professionals do it before every show. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 warm warm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 humming humming NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 lip lip ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 trills trill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 brrrr brrrr NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 22 without without ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 strain strain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 professionals professional NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 before before ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **warm up** | present | Singers | | | | | with humming and lip trills | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with humming=Instrument | | 2 | **blow** | gerund | lip trills *not said here* | brrrr | | loose lips | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent brrrr=Patient | | 3 | **work** | present | the voice | | | | | without strain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | present | voice | | | | | like a stable of horses | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** | present | professionals | voice | | | before every show | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/0/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)