--- title: Singing styles differ around the world: Chinese folk and opera singi… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Singing styles differ around the world: Chinese folk and opera singing, Ukrainian folk singing and Western pop use the voice in different ways. Who acts: Singing styles, Ukrainian folk, Chinese folk. 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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 (Singing styles, Ukrainian folk, Chinese folk), 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:12 # text = Singing styles differ around the world: Chinese folk and opera singing, Ukrainian folk singing and Western pop use the voice in different ways. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 compound _ _ 2 styles style NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 opera opera NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 singing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Ukrainian Ukrainian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 16 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 acl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **differ** | present | Singing styles | | | the world | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Ukrainian folk *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **use** | present | Chinese folk and opera and singing and Ukrainian folk | the voice | | different ways | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | 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:12`. **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): R7-rel-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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/11/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)