--- title: Many boys sing very high before their voices change; cathedral choir… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics description: Many boys sing very high before their voices change; cathedral choirs have high voices called trebles, and boys' voices usually drop in the teenage years. Who acts: Many boys, voices, cathedral choirs, high voices. 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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 (Many boys, voices, cathedral choirs, high voices), 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:6 # text = Many boys sing very high before their voices change; cathedral choirs have high voices called trebles, and boys' voices usually drop in the teenage years. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 cathedral cathedral NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 choirs choir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 trebles treble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 21 ' 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 23 usually usually ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 teenage teenage ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Many boys | | | | | high *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **change** | present | boys's voices | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | cathedral choirs | high voices | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | | 4 | **call** | participle | high voices *not said here* | trebles | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **drop** | present | boys's voices | | | | year | usually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/5/) - next →: [Singing, choirs and talent shows, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/)