--- title: The erhu is a Chinese bowed instrument with two strings; the bow hai… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics description: The erhu is a Chinese bowed instrument with two strings; the bow hair passes between the strings, and it can sound very like a human voice. Who acts: erhu, bow hair, hair. A sentence of the lesson «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» of the arts course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Instruments of the world: bandura, erh…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/) / 7 # Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more, sentence 7 The erhu is a Chinese bowed instrument with two strings; the bow hair passes between the strings, and it can sound very like a human voice. **Who acts:** erhu, bow hair, hair · **What happens:** bow, be, pass, sound · **To what, where:** Chinese bowed instrument, strings 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 (erhu, bow hair, hair), 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:7 # text = The erhu is a Chinese bowed instrument with two strings; the bow hair passes between the strings, and it can sound very like a human voice. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 2 erhu erhu X FW Foreign=Yes 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 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 16 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 24 very very ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow** | participle | | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | the erhu | a Chinese bowed instrument | | | | with two strings | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** | present | the bow hair | | | the strings | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between string=Location | | 4 | **sound** | can | hair | | | | | like a human voice | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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