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title: The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Austral… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia, traditionally made from a branch hollowed by termites; skilled players use circular breathing. Who acts: didgeridoo, skilled players. A sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and
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# Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 10

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The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia, traditionally made from a branch hollowed by termites; skilled players use circular breathing.

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**Who acts:** didgeridoo, skilled players · **What happens:** come, make, hollow, use · **To what, where:** Aboriginal Australians, branch, circular breathing

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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 (didgeridoo, skilled players), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:10
# text = The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia, traditionally made from a branch hollowed by termites; skilled players use circular breathing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	didgeridoo	didgeridoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Australians	australian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	traditionally	traditionally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	hollowed	hollow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	termites	termite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	skilled	skilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
23	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the didgeridoo |  |  | Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from australian=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia *not said here* |  | a branch |  | traditionally *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from branch=Material |
| 3 | **hollow** | participle |  | a branch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** | present | skilled players | circular breathing |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breathing=Patient |

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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.

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**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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