--- title: The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate b… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played. Who acts: sitar, nobody, strings. 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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, nobody, strings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:14 # text = The sitar has sympathetic strings that nobody plucks; they vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 041-olympiad-music-puzzles.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): 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 8 obj _ _ 7 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 8 plucks pluck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 vibrate vibrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3: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 _ _ 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 11 advcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **pluck** | present | nobody | sympathetic strings | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 3 | **vibrate** | present | strings *= string* | | | | | 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 | 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:041-olympiad-music-puzzles.lesson:14`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/13/) - next →: [Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/)