Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 11
A metronome is a ticking machine or app that keeps a steady beat; groups often rush when they get excited.
Who acts: metronome, machine app, groups · What happens: be, keep, rush, get · To what, where: machine app, steady beat
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 (metronome, machine app, groups), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 metronome | det |
| 2 | metronome | metronome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 app | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 app | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 machine | det |
| 5 | ticking | ticking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 machine | compound |
| 6 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 app | compound |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 app | cc |
| 8 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 keeps | nsubj |
| 10 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 app | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 beat | det |
| 12 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beat | amod |
| 13 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeps | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 rush | punct |
| 15 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rush | nsubj |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 17 rush | advmod |
| 17 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 app | parataxis |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 get | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rush | advcl |
| 21 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 get | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 app | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a metronome | machine app | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | machine app | a steady beat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | present | groups | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | groups = group | excited property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: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. 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.
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