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title: The treble clef is also called the G clef, because its curl wraps ar… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: The treble clef is also called the G clef, because its curl wraps around the line for the note G; it tells you which line is which note. Who acts: curl, line. 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 th
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# Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 8

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The treble clef is also called the G clef, because its curl wraps around the line for the note G; it tells you which line is which note.

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**Who acts:** curl, line · **What happens:** call, wrap, tell, be · **To what, where:** treble clef, line, you, note · **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: who acts (curl, line), 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:8
# text = The treble clef is also called the G clef, because its curl wraps around the line for the note G; it tells you which line is which note.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	treble	treble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	clef	clef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	G	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	clef	clef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	mark	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	curl	curl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wraps	wrap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	G	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	27	det	_	_
27	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	30	det	_	_
30	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the treble clef |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **wrap** | present | range's curl |  |  | the line for the note G |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around line=Destination |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | curl |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | which line | which note |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:8`.

**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 ×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/).

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