Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 5

Music is written on a staff, also called a stave, of five lines; each line and each space stands for a different note, and higher on the staff means higher in sound.

Who acts: staff, line, higher · What happens: write, call, stand, mean · To what, where: Music, staff, stave · 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 (staff, line, higher), 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 written	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 written	aux:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 staff	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 staff	det
6	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 called	advmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 staff	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stave	det
11	stave	stave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lines	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lines	case
14	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 lines	nummod
15	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stave	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 written	punct
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 line	det
18	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stands	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stands	cc
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 space	det
21	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 line	conj
22	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 written	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 note	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 note	det
25	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 note	amod
26	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stands	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 means	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 higher	cc
29	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 means	nsubj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 staff	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 staff	det
32	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 higher	obl
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stands	conj
34	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 means	xcomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 sound	case
36	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 higher	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 written	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	present · passive		Music	a staff		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on staff=Destination
2	call	participle	a staff not said here	a stave of five lines			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stave=Recipient
3	stand	present	each line and each space			for a different note	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for note=Attribute
4	mean	present	higher			high property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:5.

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 ×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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