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title: Warm-ups such as lip trills and humming help the breath and the voic… — Singing, choirs and talent shows · tree and pragmatics
description: Warm-ups such as lip trills and humming help the breath and the voice muscles work without strain. Who acts: Warm ups. A sentence of the lesson «Singing, choirs and talent shows» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Singing, choirs and talent shows, sentence 7

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Warm-ups such as lip trills and humming help the breath and the voice muscles work without strain.

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**Who acts:** Warm ups · **What happens:** hum, help, work · **To what, where:** breath

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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 (Warm ups), 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:7
# text = Warm-ups such as lip trills and humming help the breath and the voice muscles work without strain.
# 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	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trills	trill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	humming	hum	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
17	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **hum** | gerund | Warm ups such lip trills *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **help** | present | Warm ups such lip trills | the breath and the voice muscles |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **work** | present | Warm ups such lip trills *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without strain | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:7`.

**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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