--- title: Picture a class clapping "ta, ta, ti-ti, ta": saying a rhythm out lo… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a class clapping "ta, ta, ti-ti, ta": saying a rhythm out loud before you play it helps your body feel the long and short sounds, and real musicians do it too. Who acts: you, rhythm, body, real 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 (you, rhythm, body, real 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:3 # text = Picture a class clapping "ta, ta, ti-ti, ta": saying a rhythm out loud before you play it helps your body feel the long and short sounds, and real musicians do it too. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 3 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 clapping clapping NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 6 ta ta NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 ta ta NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 ti ti NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ti ti NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 ta ta NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 nsubj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rhythm rhythm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 out out ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 loud loud ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 22 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 musicians musician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | clapping ta and ta and ti ti | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent ta=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a rhythm | | | | | loud *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **play** | present | you | rhythm | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | | your body | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | infinitive | your body *not said here* | the long sounds | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 6 | **do** | present | real musicians | sound | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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