Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 3
Picture a class clapping "ta, ta, ti-ti, ta": saying a rhythm out loud before you play it helps your body feel the long and short sounds, and real musicians do it too.
Who acts: you, rhythm, body, real musicians · What happens: picture, say, play, help, feel, do · To what, where: clapping ta, rhythm, body, long sounds, sound · 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 (you, rhythm, body, real 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 class | det |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clapping | compound |
| 4 | clapping | clapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ta | compound |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ta | punct |
| 6 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ta | punct |
| 8 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ta | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ti | punct |
| 10 | ti | ti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ti | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ti | punct |
| 12 | ti | ti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ta | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ta | punct |
| 14 | ta | ta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ti | appos |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ta | punct |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 helps | nsubj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rhythm | det |
| 19 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 loud | advmod |
| 21 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 17 saying | advmod |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 play | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 play | nsubj |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 saying | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 play | obj |
| 26 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 body | nmod:poss |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 helps | obj |
| 29 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 helps | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sounds | det |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sounds | amod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 short | cc |
| 33 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 long | conj |
| 34 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 feel | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 do | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 do | cc |
| 37 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 musicians | amod |
| 38 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 do | nsubj |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 helps | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 do | obj |
| 41 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 do | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | clapping ta and ta and ti ti | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ta=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a rhythm | loud property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | play | present | you | rhythm | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | present | your body | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | infinitive | your body not said here | the long sounds | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | present | real musicians | sound | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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