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title: Bar lines split music into bars (called measures in America) with th… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Bar lines split music into bars (called measures in America) with the same number of beats, and the music flows straight through them without stopping. Who acts: Bar lines, bars, music. A sentence of the lesson «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with
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# Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 14

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Bar lines split music into bars (called measures in America) with the same number of beats, and the music flows straight through them without stopping.

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**Who acts:** Bar lines, bars, music · **What happens:** split, call, flow, stop · **To what, where:** music, bars, measures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bar lines, bars, music), 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:14
# text = Bar lines split music into bars (called measures in America) with the same number of beats, and the music flows straight through them without stopping.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
9	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | past | Bar lines | music |  |  |  | into bars *result*; with the same number of beats | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent music=Patient into bar=Result with number=Instrument |
| 2 | **call** | participle | bars *not said here* | measures in America |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flow** | present | the music |  |  |  |  | through lines *= line* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location |
| 4 | **stop** | gerund | the music *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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**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:14`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-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/).

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