Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz, sentence 9
The erhu is a Chinese instrument with two strings played with a bow, and it can sound almost like a singing voice; the Ukrainian bandura has dozens of strings and is plucked.
Who acts: erhu, orchestra, Ukrainian bandura · What happens: be, play, sound, sing, have, pluck · To what, where: Chinese instrument, two strings, dozens
This is a sentence of the lesson «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» 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, orchestra, Ukrainian bandura), 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 | 6 instrument | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 instrument | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 instrument | det |
| 5 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 instrument | amod |
| 6 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 plucked | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 strings | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 strings | nummod |
| 9 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 instrument | nmod |
| 10 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 strings | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bow | det |
| 13 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 played | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sound | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sound | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sound | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 sound | aux |
| 18 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 instrument | conj |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 sound | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 22 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 voice | amod |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sound | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bandura | det |
| 26 | Ukrainian | ukrainian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bandura | amod |
| 27 | bandura | bandura | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 plucked | conj |
| 29 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 has | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 strings | case |
| 31 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dozens | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 plucked | cc |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 plucked | aux:pass |
| 34 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 instrument | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the erhu | a Chinese instrument | with two strings | tree rules | |||
| 2 | play | participle | two strings not said here | with a bow | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sound | can | orchestra | like a singing voice; almost property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | have | present | the Ukrainian bandura | dozens of strings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=Patient | ||||
| 6 | pluck | present · passive | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative» |
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:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:9.
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 ×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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