Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 7

The erhu is a Chinese bowed instrument with two strings; the bow hair passes between the strings, and it can sound very like a human voice.

Who acts: erhu, bow hair, hair · What happens: bow, be, pass, sound · To what, where: Chinese bowed instrument, strings

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 (erhu, bow hair, hair), 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 erhu	det
2	erhu	erhu	X	Foreign=Yes	7 instrument	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 instrument	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 instrument	det
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 instrument	amod
6	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 instrument	amod
7	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 strings	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 strings	nummod
10	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 instrument	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 passes	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hair	det
13	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hair	compound
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passes	nsubj
15	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 instrument	parataxis
16	between	between	ADP	_	18 strings	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strings	det
18	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 passes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sound	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sound	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sound	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sound	aux
23	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 passes	conj
24	very	very	ADV	_	28 voice	advmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 voice	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 voice	det
27	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 voice	amod
28	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sound	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 instrument	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bow	participle					vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the erhu	a Chinese bowed instrument		with two strings	tree rules
3	pass	present	the bow hair		the strings		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between string=Location
4	sound	can	hair			like a human voice	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:7.

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 ×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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