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title: A crotchet (British) and a quarter note (American) are two names for… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: A crotchet (British) and a quarter note (American) are two names for the same note, which usually lasts one beat in 4/4 time. Who acts: crotchet, same note. 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 the 
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# Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm, sentence 9

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A crotchet (British) and a quarter note (American) are two names for the same note, which usually lasts one beat in 4/4 time.

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**Who acts:** crotchet, same note · **What happens:** be, last · **To what, where:** two names, one beat

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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 (crotchet, same note), 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:9
# text = A crotchet (British) and a quarter note (American) are two names for the same note, which usually lasts one beat in 4/4 time.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crotchet	crotchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	4/4	4/4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a crotchet and a quarter note | two names |  |  |  | for the same note | tree rules |
| 2 | **last** | present | the same note | one beat |  |  | time | usually *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme beat=Value |

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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:9`.

**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): no change. **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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