Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 3

Fewer strings does not mean easier, drums can change their pitch, and a whole continent like Africa, with 54 countries, is never "just drums".

Who acts: Fewer strings, drums, whole continent · What happens: not mean, change, not be · To what, where: pitch, drums · 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 (Fewer strings, drums, whole continent), 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	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 strings	amod
2	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 mean	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 change	punct
8	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 change	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 change	aux
10	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mean	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pitch	nmod:poss
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drums	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drums	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 continent	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 continent	amod
17	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drums	nsubj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 Africa	case
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 continent	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 countries	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 countries	case
22	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 countries	nummod
23	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 continent	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 continent	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 drums	cop
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 drums	advmod
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 drums	punct
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 drums	advmod
29	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 easier	appos
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 drums	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	Fewer strings		easy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	change	can	drums	strings's pitch		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Patient
3	not is a in a quote	present	a whole continent like Africa with 54 countries	drums		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:3.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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