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title: Counting puzzles are about beats: in 4/4 time a bar holds four crotc… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Counting puzzles are about beats: in 4/4 time a bar holds four crotchet beats, a minim lasts two beats and a quaver half a beat, so a minim and two crotchets fill a bar exactly, and a rest still counts as part of the bar. Who acts: bar, minim, rest. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles 
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# Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, sentence 1

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Counting puzzles are about beats: in 4/4 time a bar holds four crotchet beats, a minim lasts two beats and a quaver half a beat, so a minim and two crotchets fill a bar exactly, and a rest still counts as part of the bar.

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**Who acts:** bar, minim, rest · **What happens:** count, hold, last, fill · **To what, where:** four crotchet beats, two beats, bar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» 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 (bar, minim, rest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:1
# text = Counting puzzles are about beats: in 4/4 time a bar holds four crotchet beats, a minim lasts two beats and a quaver half a beat, so a minim and two crotchets fill a bar exactly, and a rest still counts as part of the bar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 041-olympiad-music-puzzles.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	amod	_	_
2	puzzles	puzzle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	0	root	_	_
5	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	4/4	4/4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nummod
14	crotchet	crotchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj
15	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	minim	minim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	quaver	quaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	minim	minim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	crotchets	crotchet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
35	fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	still	still	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advcl
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	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 | **count** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | present | a bar | four crotchet beats |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Theme |
| 3 | **last** | present | a minim | two beats |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme beat=Value |
| 4 | **fill** | infinitive | a minim and two crotchets | a bar |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bar=Patient |
| 5 | **count** | present | a rest |  |  |  | still | as part of the bar | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as part=Attribute |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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