Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 15
The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.
Who acts: guzheng · What happens: pluck, be, play · To what, where: Chinese plucked zither, China
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 (guzheng), 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 guzheng | det |
| 2 | guzheng | guzheng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 zither | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 zither | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 zither | det |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 zither | amod |
| 6 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 zither | amod |
| 7 | zither | zither | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 strings | case |
| 9 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 zither | nmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 bridges | case |
| 11 | movable | movable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bridges | amod |
| 12 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strings | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 played | punct |
| 14 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 zither | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 China | case |
| 16 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 played | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 2,000 | advmod |
| 19 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 played | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 zither | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | participle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the guzheng | a Chinese plucked zither | with strings over movable bridges | tree rules | |||
| 3 | play | participle | a Chinese plucked zither not said here | China | year | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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, 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:15.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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