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title: The tone of a voice — loud, quiet, shaky or flat — can show how some… — Reading faces and voices · tree and pragmatics
description: The tone of a voice — loud, quiet, shaky or flat — can show how someone feels. Who acts: tone, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading faces and voices, sentence 11

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The tone of a voice — loud, quiet, shaky or flat — can show how someone feels.

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**Who acts:** tone, someone · **What happens:** show, feel, intonate · **To what, where:** voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» of the everyday 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 (tone, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:11
# text = The tone of a voice — loud, quiet, shaky or flat — can show how someone feels.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 014-faces-and-voices.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	shaky	shaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
19	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | can | the tone of a voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **intonate** |  |  | a voice |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:11`.

**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. **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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