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title: The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th centu… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century from oil drums and is its national instrument. 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 the prag
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# Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 14

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The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century from oil drums and is its national instrument.

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**What happens:** develop, be · **To what, where:** steel pan, Trinidad, national instrument

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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: 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:14
# text = The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century from oil drums and is its national instrument.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Trinidad	Trinidad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Tobago	Tobago	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **develop** | past · passive |  | the steel pan |  | Trinidad and Tobago | century | from oil drums | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from drum=Material |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | pan's national instrument |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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