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title: 3/4 means three crotchet beats in each bar, which gives the swaying… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: 3/4 means three crotchet beats in each bar, which gives the swaying feel of a waltz. Who acts: 3/4, three crotchet beats, waltz. A sentence of the lesson «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 13

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3/4 means three crotchet beats in each bar, which gives the swaying feel of a waltz.

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**Who acts:** 3/4, three crotchet beats, waltz · **What happens:** mean, give, feel · **To what, where:** three crotchet beats, swaying feel

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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 (3/4, three crotchet beats, waltz), 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:13
# text = 3/4 means three crotchet beats in each bar, which gives the swaying feel of a waltz.
# 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 ×1
1	3/4	3/4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	crotchet	crotchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	swaying	swaying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	feel	feel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	waltz	waltz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | 3/4 | three crotchet beats |  |  |  | in each bar | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot beat=Theme in bar=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | present | three crotchet beats | the swaying feel of a waltz |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feel=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** |  | a waltz |  |  |  |  |  | nom feel «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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 ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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