Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there, sentence 1
Picture a guard saying "Step back from the art, please": oils and sweat from hands slowly damage paint, and one touch is small, but millions of visitors touching would wear a painting away.
Who acts: you, guard, oils, one touch, visitors, millions · What happens: picture, say, step back, damage, be, touch · To what, where: guard, paint, painting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» 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 (you, guard, oils, one touch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guard | det |
| 3 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 guard | acl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Step | punct |
| 6 | Step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 Step | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 art | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 art | det |
| 10 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 back | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 please | punct |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 Step | discourse |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Step | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 oils | punct |
| 15 | oils | oil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 damage | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sweat | cc |
| 17 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 oils | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 oils | nmod |
| 20 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 21 damage | advmod |
| 21 | damage | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 22 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 damage | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 small | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 small | cc |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 touch | nummod |
| 26 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 small | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 small | cop |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wear | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 wear | cc |
| 31 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 wear | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 visitors | case |
| 33 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 millions | nmod |
| 34 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 visitors | acl |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 wear | aux |
| 36 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 painting | det |
| 38 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wear | obj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 36 wear | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a guard | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a guard not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | step back in a quote | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | damage | present | oils from hands and sweat | paint | slowly property | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument paint=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | present | one touch | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | touch | gerund | visitors not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | wear away | would | millions of visitors | a painting | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent painting=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, 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:017-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there.lesson:1.
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 ×3, 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.
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