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title: The trembita is a long wooden horn of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian C… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The trembita is a long wooden horn of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian Carpathians, often around 3 metres or more, used for signals in the mountains and at ceremonies; the Swiss alphorn is a similar mountain horn. Who acts: trembita, Swiss alphorn. A sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: ban
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# Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 17

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The trembita is a long wooden horn of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian Carpathians, often around 3 metres or more, used for signals in the mountains and at ceremonies; the Swiss alphorn is a similar mountain horn.

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**Who acts:** trembita, Swiss alphorn · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** long wooden horn, similar mountain horn

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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 (trembita, Swiss alphorn), 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:17
# text = The trembita is a long wooden horn of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian Carpathians, often around 3 metres or more, used for signals in the mountains and at ceremonies; the Swiss alphorn is a similar mountain horn.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trembita	trembita	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	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hutsuls	hutsul	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
14	Carpathians	carpathian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	around	around	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	alphorn	alphorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
41	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the trembita | a long wooden horn |  |  |  | of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian Carpathians | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a long wooden horn *not said here* |  |  |  | for signals in the mountains and ceremonies | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the Swiss alphorn | a similar mountain horn |  |  |  |  | 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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