Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there, sentence 3
Museums also raise big questions: some objects were taken from other countries in colonial times and people argue about sending them back, and in wars museums hide their art because it holds a country's memory.
Who acts: Museums, people, museum · What happens: raise, take, argue, send back, hide, hold · To what, where: big questions, objects, other countries, art, wars, memory
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 (Museums, people, museum), 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 | Museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raise | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 raise | advmod |
| 3 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 questions | amod |
| 5 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raise | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 raise | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 objects | det |
| 8 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raise | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 countries | case |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 countries | amod |
| 13 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taken | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 times | case |
| 15 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taken | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 argue | cc |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 argue | nsubj |
| 19 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | conj |
| 20 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 21 sending | mark |
| 21 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 argue | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sending | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 sending | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hide | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hide | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wars | case |
| 27 | wars | wars | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hide | obl |
| 28 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hide | nsubj |
| 29 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 raise | parataxis |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 art | nmod:poss |
| 31 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hide | obj |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 holds | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 holds | nsubj |
| 34 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 hide | advcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 country | det |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 memory | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 country | case |
| 38 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 holds | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | present | Museums | big questions | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | some objects | other countries | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from country=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | present | people | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send back | gerund | people not said here | objects = object | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide | present | museums | objects's art | wars | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent art=Patient in wars=Location | |||
| 6 | hold | present | museum | a country's memory | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=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, 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:3.
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 ×2. 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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