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title: The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while st… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch. Who acts: tabla, pressing. 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 with its dependency tree and th
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# Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 13

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The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.

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**Who acts:** tabla, pressing · **What happens:** be, press, strike, change · **To what, where:** pair, skin, pitch

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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 (tabla, pressing), 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:13
# text = The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tabla	tabla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | the tabla | a pair |  |  |  | of Indian hand drums | tree rules |
| 2 | **press** | gerund |  | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | gerund |  | skin |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **change** | present | pressing | the pitch |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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