Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, sentence 14

The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played.

Who acts: sitar, nobody, strings · What happens: have, pluck, vibrate, match, play · To what, where: sympathetic strings, matching notes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» 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 (sitar, nobody, strings), 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 sitar	det
2	sitar	sitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strings	amod
5	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 plucks	obj
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 plucks	nsubj
8	plucks	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 strings	acl:relcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 vibrate	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 vibrate	nsubj
11	vibrate	vibrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 vibrate	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 played	advmod
15	matching	match	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 notes	amod
16	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 played	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 played	aux:pass
18	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 vibrate	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the sitar	sympathetic strings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
2	pluck	present	nobody	sympathetic strings		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	vibrate	present	strings = string		by strings = string	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
4	match	gerund				vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	play	present · passive		matching notes		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:14.

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): 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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