--- title: Fewer strings does not mean easier, drums can change their pitch, an… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics description: Fewer strings does not mean easier, drums can change their pitch, and a whole continent like Africa, with 54 countries, is never "just drums". Who acts: Fewer strings, drums, whole continent. 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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 (Fewer strings, drums, whole continent), 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:3 # text = Fewer strings does not mean easier, drums can change their pitch, and a whole continent like Africa, with 54 countries, is never "just drums". # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:ccomp 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 pitch pitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 54 54 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Fewer strings | | | | | easy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **change** | can | drums | strings's pitch | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | a whole continent like Africa with 54 countries | drums | | | | | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. 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