--- title: The sitar has sympathetic strings that are not plucked but vibrate b… — Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar,… · tree and pragmatics description: The sitar has sympathetic strings that are not plucked but vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played; Ravi Shankar made it famous worldwide, and George Harrison of the Beatles learned from him. Who acts: sitar, Ravi, George. 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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 (sitar, Ravi, George), 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:8 # text = The sitar has sympathetic strings that are not plucked but vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played; Ravi Shankar made it famous worldwide, and George Harrison of the Beatles learned from him. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sitar sitar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 sympathetic sympathetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 plucked pluck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 vibrate vibrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 15 matching match VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 Ravi Ravi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 Shankar Shankar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 flat _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 worldwide worldwide ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 29 Harrison Harrison PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Beatles Beatles PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the sitar | sympathetic strings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient | | 2 | **not** **pluck** | present · passive | | sympathetic strings | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **vibrate** | infinitive | | | | | | by strings *= string* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location | | 4 | **match** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **play** | present · passive | | matching notes | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | Ravi | sitar | | | | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | | 7 | **learn** | past | George | | | | | from Ravi | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source | 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:8`. **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, 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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