Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 2
The trick is not to squeeze new things into old boxes: the kora is not "a guitar or a harp", the guzheng is not "a sideways piano", and bagpipes are not only Scottish.
Who acts: kora, guzheng, bagpipes · What happens: be, not squeeze, not be · To what, where: trick, new things, old boxes, guitar, sideways piano · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (kora, guzheng, bagpipes), 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 trick | det |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 trick | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 squeeze | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 squeeze | mark |
| 6 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trick | xcomp |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 squeeze | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 boxes | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boxes | amod |
| 11 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 squeeze | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 guitar | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kora | det |
| 14 | kora | kora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guitar | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 guitar | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 guitar | advmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 guitar | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 guitar | det |
| 19 | guitar | guitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trick | parataxis |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 harp | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 harp | det |
| 22 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guitar | conj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 guitar | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 piano | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 guzheng | det |
| 26 | guzheng | guzheng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 piano | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 piano | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 piano | advmod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 piano | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 piano | det |
| 31 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 piano | compound |
| 32 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guitar | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 piano | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Scottish | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Scottish | cc |
| 36 | bagpipes | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Scottish | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 Scottish | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 Scottish | advmod |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 Scottish | advmod |
| 40 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 guitar | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trick | 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 trick | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not squeeze | to-infinitive | new things | old boxes | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent thing=Material into box=Product | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | the kora | a guitar or a harp and a sideways piano | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | the guzheng | a sideways piano | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | bagpipes | scottish property | tree rules |
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:2.
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, R6-punct-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.
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