Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 15

A sharp raises a note by a semitone, the smallest step on a piano; a flat, which looks like a small b, lowers it by a semitone.

Who acts: sharp, flat · What happens: raise, look, lower · To what, where: note, sharp

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 (sharp, flat), 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 sharp	det
2	sharp	sharp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raises	nsubj
3	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raises	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 semitone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 semitone	det
8	semitone	semitone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raises	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 step	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 step	det
11	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 step	amod
12	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 note	appos
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 piano	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 piano	det
15	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 step	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 flat	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flat	det
18	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lowers	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looks	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 looks	nsubj
21	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 flat	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 b	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 b	det
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 b	amod
25	b	B	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looks	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lowers	punct
27	lowers	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raises	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lowers	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 semitone	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 semitone	det
31	semitone	semitone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lowers	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 raises	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise	present	a sharp	a note	by a semitone	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent note=Theme by semitone=Destination
2	look	present	a flat		like a small b	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	lower	present	a flat	sharp	by a semitone	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by semitone=Destination

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:15.

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 ×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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