Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 13
The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.
Who acts: tabla, pressing · What happens: be, press, strike, change · To what, where: pair, skin, pitch
This is a sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» 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 (tabla, pressing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tabla | det |
| 2 | tabla | tabla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pair | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pair | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 drums | case |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drums | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drums | compound |
| 9 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pair | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 pressing | punct |
| 11 | pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 changes | csubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pressing | obj |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 striking | mark |
| 15 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 pressing | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 striking | obj |
| 17 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pair | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pitch | det |
| 19 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changes | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pair | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tabla | a pair | of Indian hand drums | tree rules | |||
| 2 | press | gerund | the skin | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | skin | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | change | present | pressing | the pitch | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Patient |
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, 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:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:13.
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.
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