--- title: A metronome is a ticking machine or app that keeps a steady beat; gr… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: A metronome is a ticking machine or app that keeps a steady beat; groups often rush when they get excited. Who acts: metronome, machine app, groups. 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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 (metronome, machine app, groups), 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:11 # text = A metronome is a ticking machine or app that keeps a steady beat; groups often rush when they get excited. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 metronome metronome NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 5 ticking ticking NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 6 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 app app NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 rush rush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a metronome | machine app | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | machine app | a steady beat | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme | | 3 | **rush** | present | groups | | | | | often *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **get** | present | groups *= group* | | | | | excited *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/10/) - next →: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/)