--- title: The trick is not to squeeze new things into old boxes: the kora is n… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics description: The trick is not to squeeze new things into old boxes: the kora is not "a guitar or a harp", the guzheng is not "a sideways piano", and bagpipes are not only Scottish. Who acts: kora, guzheng, bagpipes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kora, guzheng, bagpipes), 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:2 # text = The trick is not to squeeze new things into old boxes: the kora is not "a guitar or a harp", the guzheng is not "a sideways piano", and bagpipes are not only Scottish. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 squeeze squeeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 kora kora NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 guitar guitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 guzheng guzheng NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 sideways sideway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 compound _ _ 32 piano piano NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 bagpipes bagpipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 Scottish Scottish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the trick | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **squeeze** | to-infinitive | | new things | | old boxes | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent thing=Material into box=Product | | 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | the kora | a guitar or a harp and a sideways piano | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | the guzheng | a sideways piano | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | bagpipes | | | | | scottish *property* | tree rules | 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. **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:2`. **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, R6-punct-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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