--- title: Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and… — how Mova does on the tests · Arts description: Lesson 10 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 5 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/) / 10 # Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more **Tests:** 5 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★★ · **Understood:** 10 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 10 of the arts course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/). ### Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t1} Your mate goes, "more strings = harder, so the erhu's dead easy." What is wrong? - **1.** The erhu actually has 50 strings — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The erhu isn't played at all — no support - **3.** he's right, two strings is simple, anyone could pick it up in a day — no support - **4.** Fewer strings does not mean easier; the erhu takes great skill — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t2} Conor in Dublin says, "Yer man's having a laugh" ("that fella's joking") about the bandura's strings. What should he learn? - **1.** It is a joke instrument from a TV show — no support - **2.** It really has around 55 to 65 strings and a long history — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **3.** It is just an Irish harp with a new name — no support - **4.** It has two real strings, and the rest are fake ones just for show — score 5 **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 10, line 9: «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 Geo…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «sympathetic strings» (+2); the same light verb (be, have, do, get, go) (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t3} What would happen if you cut off all the sympathetic strings on a sitar? - **1.** It would get much louder — no support - **2.** It would lose much of its shimmering sound — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** It would sound exactly the same, because those strings are never touched — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** It would stop working completely — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 8: «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.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «sound» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} A cartoon shows a didgeridoo player turning blue holding his breath. What's wrong? - **1.** Nothing, players really hold their breath — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Players breathe in through the nose while blowing out — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Didgeridoos are played by hitting them — no support - **4.** Players breathe through the didgeridoo backwards — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Sean in Belfast says, "Bagpipes are Scottish, so they are." Which fact puts it right? - **1.** Bagpipes come only from England, and the Scots borrowed them — **← Mova's choice** · score 10 - **2.** Ireland, Spain and Bulgaria have their own bagpipes — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** Bagpipes are a kind of trumpet — score 6 - **4.** No country has bagpipes any more — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 10, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 10, line 3: «The trick is not to squeeze new things into old boxes: the kora is not "a guitar or a harp", the guzheng is not "a sideways piano", and bagpipes are not only S…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «bagpipes» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t6} Ethan says, "African music is just drums, everyone knows." Which instrument shows he is wrong? - **1.** The kora, a 21-string harp-lute — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** The djembe, a West African hand drum — no support - **3.** The bass drum, an orchestra drum — no support - **4.** The snare drum, a marching band drum — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} Someone wants to play a didgeridoo at a festival. What is respectful? - **1.** Pretend it was invented in their own town to make it more fun — no support - **2.** Paint over the traditional designs — no support - **3.** Learn about and respect the culture it comes from — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Ignore where it comes from completely — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 11: «The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia, traditionally made from a branch hollowed by termites; skilled players use circular bre…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «come» (+2); the same doer «didgeridoo» (+2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t8} Malik's friend says, "No way, oil drums can't be real instruments, eh." What is the truth? - **1.** Great instruments can be made from what is at hand — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** Real instruments must always come from proper factories — no support - **3.** Oil drums can only make noise, not notes — no support - **4.** Steel pans are banned in Canada — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 1: «Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at hand: gourds, termite-hollowed branches, bamboo, old oil drums, and they carry the stories…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «own instruments» (+4); the same action «build» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t9} Zak calls the erhu "lowkey wild" (kind of wild). What makes it unusual? - **1.** The bow hair passes between its two strings — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 8 - **2.** It is made of ice — no support - **3.** It is played with the feet — no support - **4.** It has no strings at all, only a bow — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 1 with score 8, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 16: «Rosin is hardened pine resin rubbed on a bow so the hair grips the strings and makes them vibrate; traditional bow hair is horsehair.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «hair» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★★ · right ✓ {#t10} Tom says, "Drums can only make one sound, bruv." What does the tabla show? - **1.** He's right, every drum has one sound — score 12 - **2.** Only electric drums can change sound — score 12 - **3.** Drums can change pitch and make many sounds — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 15 - **4.** Tabla are not really drums — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 15, against 12 for the next best. Its support: lesson 9, line 17: «The family of an instrument depends on how the sound is made, not on its material.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+7); the same thing acted on «sound» (+5); the same action «make» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t10/) ### Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗ {#t11} Ava calls the guzheng a sideways piano. What would show her it isn't? - **1.** It is plucked with the fingers, not played with keys — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** It has keys hidden underneath where you can't see them — **← Mova's choice** · score 4 - **3.** It is played with a bow — no support - **4.** It is blown like a horn — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 9, line 4: «Some instruments do not fit one box: a piano has strings struck by hammers when you press keys, so people argue whether it is strings or percussion, and many j…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+3); the same thing acted on «keys» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/t11/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓ {#e1} Identify the principal means by which a player of the didgeridoo sustains an uninterrupted sound. - **1.** Circular breathing, inhaling through the nose while expelling air stored in the cheeks — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 9 - **2.** The retention of a single breath for several minutes — no support - **3.** The alternation of two players upon one instrument — no support - **4.** A concealed reservoir of air within the instrument — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 10, line 12: «Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing out air stored in the cheeks, so the sound never stops.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «store» (+4); the same thing acted on «air» (+3); the same place «cheeks» (+2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the sympathetic strings of the sitar. - **1.** They vibrate without being plucked when corresponding notes are played — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 - **2.** They serve a purely decorative purpose — no support - **3.** They secure the structure of the instrument — no support - **4.** They are reserve strings for use upon breakage — score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 7, tied with another option at 7 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 9, line 16: «Rosin is hardened pine resin rubbed on a bow so the hair grips the strings and makes them vibrate; traditional bow hair is horsehair.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «vibrate» (+4); the same doer «strings» (+3). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the geographical distribution of bagpipes? - **1.** Bagpipes are unknown outside the British Isles — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Bagpipes were devised in the twentieth century — no support - **3.** Bagpipes are found in many lands, including Ireland, Galicia and Bulgaria — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** Bagpipes are confined exclusively to Scotland and have never been played elsewhere — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Ascertain the origin of the steel pan. - **1.** It was manufactured first in Canada in recent years — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It was devised in a European conservatoire of the eighteenth century — no support - **3.** It derives from the long horns of the Carpathian mountains — no support - **4.** It was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the twentieth century from oil drums — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/e4/) - ← previous: [9. Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/) - next →: [11. Concerts, orchestras and live gigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/)