Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 16

Playing by ear means working out music by listening; many famous folk, blues and rock musicians mostly played that way, and many great musicians use both ear and reading.

Who acts: Playing, many famous folk, many great musicians · What happens: play, mean, work out, listen, use · To what, where: music, way, ear · 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 (Playing, many famous folk, many great musicians), 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	Playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 means	csubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 ear	case
3	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 means	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 working	compound:prt
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 working	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 listening	mark
9	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 working	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 folk	punct
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 folk	amod
12	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 folk	amod
13	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blues	punct
15	blues	blue	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 folk	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 musicians	cc
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 musicians	compound
18	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 folk	conj
19	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	20 played	advmod
20	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 played	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 use	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 use	cc
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 musicians	amod
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 musicians	amod
27	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 use	nsubj
28	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
29	both	both	CCONJ	_	30 ear	cc:preconj
30	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 use	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 reading	cc
32	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ear	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	gerund			by ear	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	Playing			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	work out not said to happen	gerund	Playing not said here	music		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Topic
4	listen	gerund	Playing not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	play	past	many famous folk and blues and rock musicians	that way	mostly property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
6	use	present	many great musicians	ear and reading		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

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:16.

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 ×3. 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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