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title: A choir often splits into parts singing different notes at once, cal… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics
description: A choir often splits into parts singing different notes at once, called harmony, so a different note is not always a mistake; picture the high voices, the low voices and the middle voices fitting together like layers of a cake. Who acts: choir, parts, different notes, different note. A sentence of t
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# Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 2

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A choir often splits into parts singing different notes at once, called harmony, so a different note is not always a mistake; picture the high voices, the low voices and the middle voices fitting together like layers of a cake.

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**Who acts:** choir, parts, different notes, different note, high voices · **What happens:** split, sing, call, not be, picture, fit together · **To what, where:** parts, different notes, harmony, mistake, high voices · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Singing, choirs and talent shows» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (choir, parts, different notes, different note), 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:2
# text = A choir often splits into parts singing different notes at once, called harmony, so a different note is not always a mistake; picture the high voices, the low voices and the middle voices fitting together like layers of a cake.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	splits	split	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
14	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
38	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
39	together	together	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | present | a choir |  |  |  |  | into parts *result*; often *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into part=Result |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | parts *not said here* | different notes |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | participle | different notes *not said here* | harmony |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | a different note | a mistake |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **picture** | infinitive |  | the high voices and the low voices and the middle voices |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 6 | **fit together** | gerund | the high voices and the low voices and the middle voices *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like layers of a cake; together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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/).

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