--- title: Most people who think they are "tone deaf" just have not practised;… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Most people who think they are "tone deaf" just have not practised; real tone deafness is rare, nerves make even good voices shake, and a sore throat needs rest, not a big push. Who acts: Most people, people, real tone deafness, nerves. 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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, people, real tone deafness, nerves), 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:3 # text = Most people who think they are "tone deaf" just have not practised; real tone deafness is rare, nerves make even good voices shake, and a sore throat needs rest, not a big push. # 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 ×3 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 deaf deaf ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 just just ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 practised practise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 deafness deafness NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 24 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 34 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Most people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | people | | | | | deaf *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **practise** | present · perfect | Most people | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | real tone deafness | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | nerves | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **shake** | infinitive | good voices | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **need** | present | a sore throat | rest | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=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:3`. **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 ×3. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/2/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)