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title: The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings. Who acts: bandura, modern concert banduras. 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 wit
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# Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 5

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The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings.

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**Who acts:** bandura, modern concert banduras · **What happens:** pluck, be, have · **To what, where:** Ukrainian plucked string instrument, 55 strings

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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 (bandura, modern concert banduras), 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:5
# text = The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bandura	bandura	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Ukrainian	Ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	banduras	bandura	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
14	around	around	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	65	65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 bandura | a Ukrainian plucked string instrument |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | modern concert banduras | 55 strings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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