Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 12

A time signature is two numbers at the start: the top says how many beats are in each bar, the bottom says which kind of note gets one beat.

Who acts: time signature, top, many beats, bottom, kind · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: start, bar, one beat · 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 (time signature, top, many beats, bottom), 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	3 signature	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signature	compound
3	signature	signature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 start	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 start	cop
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 numbers	nummod
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 start	nmod:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 start	det
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 top	det
12	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 start	acl:relcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beats	amod
16	beats	beat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bar	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bar	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bar	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 bar	det
20	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bottom	det
23	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bar	acl:relcl
25	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	26 kind	det
26	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gets	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 note	case
28	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kind	nmod
29	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 says	ccomp
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 beat	nummod
31	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gets	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 start	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a time signature		the start	two numbers nmod:unmarked	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the top	the start not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent start=Topic
3	is	present	many beats		each bar		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	the bottom	each bar not said here			tree rules
5	get	present	which kind of note	one beat			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beat=Stimulus

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:12.

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): R8-pos-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.

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