--- title: Playing by ear means working out music by listening; many famous fol… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: Playing by ear means working out music by listening; many famous folk, blues and rock musicians mostly played that way, and many great musicians use both ear and reading. Who acts: Playing, many famous folk, many great musicians. 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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 (Playing, many famous folk, many great musicians), 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:16 # text = Playing by ear means working out music by listening; many famous folk, blues and rock musicians mostly played that way, and many great musicians use both ear and reading. # 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 ×3 1 Playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 by by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 xcomp _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 blues blue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 musicians musician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 musicians musician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 both both CCONJ CC _ 30 cc:preconj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 30 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | by ear | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | Playing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **work out** *not said to happen* | gerund | Playing *not said here* | music | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Topic | | 4 | **listen** | gerund | Playing *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **play** | past | many famous folk and blues and rock musicians | that way | | | | mostly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 6 | **use** | present | many great musicians | ear and reading | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | 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:16`. **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 ×3. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/15/) - next →: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/)