--- title: Lip-syncing means moving your lips to a recording instead of singing… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Lip-syncing means moving your lips to a recording instead of singing live; there have been reported cases of famous singers lip-syncing at big events, and people argue whether it is cheating or a sensible way to protect a big show from going wrong. 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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 (Lip syncing, famous singers, people, syncing), 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:13 # text = Lip-syncing means moving your lips to a recording instead of singing live; there have been reported cases of famous singers lip-syncing at big events, and people argue whether it is cheating or a sensible way to protect a big show from going wrong. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 syncing sync NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 recording recording NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 14 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 aux _ _ 19 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 20 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 lip lip NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 syncing sync VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 34 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 cheating cheat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advcl 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 from from SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 48 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 acl _ _ 49 wrong wrong ADV RB _ 48 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:advmod 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Lip syncing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **move** *not said to happen* | gerund | Lip syncing *not said here* | your lips | | a recording | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lip=Theme to recording=Trajectory | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Lip syncing *not said here* | | | | | live *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **report** | present · perfect · passive | | cases of famous singers | | there | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient | | 5 | **sync** | gerund | famous singers *not said here* | | | big events | | | tree rules | | 6 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **cheat** | present · progressive | syncing *= sync* | | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **protect** | to-infinitive | syncing *= sync* *not said here* | a big show | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Beneficiary | | 9 | **go** | gerund | a big show *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:13`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/12/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)