Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 0
Written music is a map of sound: notes sit on five lines called a staff (or stave), and the higher a note sits, the higher it sounds, like climbing a ladder.
Who acts: Written music, notes, five lines, note, it · What happens: write, be, sit, call, sound, climb · To what, where: map, five lines, staff, ladder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» 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 (Written music, notes, five lines, note), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 music | amod |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 map | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 map | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 map | det |
| 5 | map | map | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 map | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sit | punct |
| 9 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sit | nsubj |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 map | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 lines | case |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 lines | nummod |
| 13 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sit | obl |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lines | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 staff | det |
| 16 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 stave | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 stave | cc |
| 19 | stave | stave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 staff | conj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 stave | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 higher | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 higher | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 higher | det |
| 24 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 sit | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 note | det |
| 26 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sits | nsubj |
| 27 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 higher | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sounds | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 higher | det |
| 30 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 sounds | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sounds | nsubj |
| 32 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 higher | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sounds | punct |
| 34 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 35 climbing | mark |
| 35 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 sounds | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ladder | det |
| 37 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 climbing | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 map | punct |
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 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | Written music | a map | of sound | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit | present | notes | five lines | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | five lines not said here | a staff or stave | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sit | present | a note | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sound | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | climb | gerund | a ladder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=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, 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:002-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
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