Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 2

Music also has a beat, a steady pulse like your heartbeat; bar lines cut the music into little boxes of equal beats, and the time signature at the start says how to count each box.

Who acts: Music, bar lines, time signature · What happens: have, cut, say, count · To what, where: beat, music, little boxes, box · 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 (Music, bar lines, time signature), 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	Music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beat	det
5	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulse	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pulse	det
8	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pulse	amod
9	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	appos
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 heartbeat	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heartbeat	nmod:poss
12	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulse	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
14	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lines	compound
15	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	nsubj
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 music	det
18	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 boxes	case
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boxes	amod
21	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 beats	case
23	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beats	amod
24	beats	beat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 boxes	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 says	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 says	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 signature	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 signature	compound
29	signature	signature	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 says	nsubj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 start	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 start	det
32	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 signature	nmod
33	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 count	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 count	mark
36	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 says	ccomp
37	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 box	det
38	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 count	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Music	a beat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient
2	cut	present	bar lines	the music	little boxes of equal beats	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent music=Material into box=Product
3	say speech: assert	present	the time signature at the start			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	count	to-infinitive		each box		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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:2.

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): R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

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