--- title: Music is written on a staff, also called a stave, of five lines; eac… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics description: Music is written on a staff, also called a stave, of five lines; each line and each space stands for a different note, and higher on the staff means higher in sound. Who acts: staff, line, higher. 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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 (staff, line, higher), 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:5 # text = Music is written on a staff, also called a stave, of five lines; each line and each space stands for a different note, and higher on the staff means higher in sound. # 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 Music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 also also ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 stave stave NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 22 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 nsubj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obj 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **write** | present · passive | | Music | | a staff | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on staff=Destination | | 2 | **call** | participle | a staff *not said here* | a stave of five lines | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stave=Recipient | | 3 | **stand** | present | each line and each space | | | | | for a different note | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for note=Attribute | | 4 | **mean** | present | higher | | | | | high *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/4/) - next →: [Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/)