--- title: Music also has a beat, a steady pulse like your heartbeat; bar lines… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: Music also has a beat, a steady pulse like your heartbeat; bar lines cut the music into little boxes of equal beats, and the time signature at the start says how to count each box. Who acts: Music, bar lines, time signature. 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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 (Music, bar lines, time signature), 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:2 # text = Music also has a beat, a steady pulse like your heartbeat; bar lines cut the music into little boxes of equal beats, and the time signature at the start says how to count each box. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 pulse pulse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heartbeat heartbeat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 equal equal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 beats beat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 signature signature NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 37 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 38 det _ _ 38 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Music | a beat | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient | | 2 | **cut** | present | bar lines | the music | | little boxes of equal beats | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent music=Material into box=Product | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the time signature at the start | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **count** | to-infinitive | | each box | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | 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:2`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/1/) - next →: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/)