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title: In the Kodaly method, named after the Hungarian composer Zoltan Koda… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Kodaly method, named after the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, "ta" is said for a one-beat note and "ti-ti" for two half-beat notes. 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 e
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# Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 17

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In the Kodaly method, named after the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, "ta" is said for a one-beat note and "ti-ti" for two half-beat notes.

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**What happens:** name, say · **To what, where:** Kodaly method, ta · **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: 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:17
# text = In the Kodaly method, named after the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, "ta" is said for a one-beat note and "ti-ti" for two half-beat notes.
# 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 ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Kodaly	Kodaly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hungarian	hungarian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	composer	composer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	Zoltan	Zoltan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	Kodaly	Kodaly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ta	ta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	ti	ti	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	ti	ti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
33	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | **name** | participle |  | the Kodaly method *not said here* |  |  | after the Hungarian composer |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | ta |  | the Kodaly method |  | for a beat note and ti ti; for two beat notes | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in method=Manner |

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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:17`.

**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 ×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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