--- title: Singing with a sore throat can strain the voice and make it worse; s… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Singing with a sore throat can strain the voice and make it worse; singers rest, drink water and avoid shouting. Who acts: Singing, singers. 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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, singers), 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:14 # text = Singing with a sore throat can strain the voice and make it worse; singers rest, drink water and avoid shouting. # 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, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 strain strain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 15 singers singer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rest rest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 18 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 22 shouting shout VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | with a sore throat | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with throat=Theme | | 2 | **strain** | can | Singing | the voice | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Source | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | Singing *not said here* | voice | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **rest** | present | singers | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **drink** | present | singers *not said here* | water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 6 | **avoid** | present | singers *not said here* | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | singers *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:14`. **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, R3-conj-first ×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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/13/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)