--- title: Written music is a map of sound: notes sit on five lines called a st… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: Written music is a map of sound: notes sit on five lines called a staff (or stave), and the higher a note sits, the higher it sounds, like climbing a ladder. Who acts: Written music, notes, five lines, note. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Written music, notes, five lines, note), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:002-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm.lesson:0 # text = Written music is a map of sound: notes sit on five lines called a staff (or stave), and the higher a note sits, the higher it sounds, like climbing a ladder. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 002-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 Written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 amod _ _ 2 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 stave stave NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:appos 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 advcl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 like like SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Written music | a map | | | | of sound | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | present | notes | | | five lines | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location | | 4 | **call** | participle | five lines *not said here* | a staff or stave | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sit** | present | a note | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sound** | present | it | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **climb** | gerund | | a ladder | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location ladder=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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 ×2. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Music lessons and the recorder, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/1-music-lessons-and-the-recorder/16/) - next →: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/)