--- title: True tone deafness, called amusia, is reported to be rare; most peop… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: True tone deafness, called amusia, is reported to be rare; most people can learn to sing in tune much better with practice. Who acts: most people. 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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 (most people), 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:10 # text = True tone deafness, called amusia, is reported to be rare; most people can learn to sing in tune much better with practice. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 True true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 deafness deafness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 amusia amusia NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod 22 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **report** | present · passive | | True tone deafness | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **learn** | can | most people | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | most people *not said here* | | | tune | | well *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tune=Location | 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:10`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/9/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)