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title: The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable br… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years. Who acts: guzheng. 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 tre
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# Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 15

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The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.

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**Who acts:** guzheng · **What happens:** pluck, be, play · **To what, where:** Chinese plucked zither, China

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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 (guzheng), 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:15
# text = The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guzheng	guzheng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	zither	zither	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	movable	movable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **pluck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the guzheng | a Chinese plucked zither |  |  |  | with strings over movable bridges | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | participle |  | a Chinese plucked zither *not said here* |  | China | year |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:010-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo.lesson:15`.

**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. **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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