--- title: People name things differently: in Britain a one-beat note is a crot… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: People name things differently: in Britain a one-beat note is a crotchet, in America a quarter note; Northerners in England say "nowt" for nothing, Geordies say "howay" for come on and "divvent" for don't, and many players call written music "the dots". 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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 (People, beat note, Northerners, Geordies), 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:4 # text = People name things differently: in Britain a one-beat note is a crotchet, in America a quarter note; Northerners in England say "nowt" for nothing, Geordies say "howay" for come on and "divvent" for don't, and many players call written music "the dots". # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 name name VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 differently differently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 beat beat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 crotchet crotchet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Northerners northerner PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 nowt nowt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 Geordies geordy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 howay howay NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 for for SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 40 on on ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 43 divvent divvent NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obl 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 45 for for ADP IN _ 46 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=46:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 46 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 47 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 50 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 parataxis _ _ 53 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 amod _ _ 54 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ _ 55 " " PUNCT `` _ 57 punct _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 dots dot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | present | People | things | | | | differently *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a beat note | a crotchet | | Britain | | in America | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Northerners in England | nowt | | | | for nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nowt=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Geordies | howay | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come on** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **call** | present | many players | written music | | | | the dots *obl* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent music=Recipient | | 7 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/)