Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there, sentence 5

Museums ask people not to touch art because oils and sweat from hands damage paint over time; conservation means keeping art safe for the future.

Who acts: Museums, oils, conservation · What happens: ask, not touch, damage, mean, keep · To what, where: people, art, paint · 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 (Museums, oils, conservation), 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	2 ask	nsubj
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	iobj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 touch	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	xcomp
7	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touch	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 damage	mark
9	oils	oil	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 damage	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sweat	cc
11	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 oils	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 hands	case
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 oils	nmod
14	damage	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	advcl
15	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 damage	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 damage	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 means	punct
19	conservation	conservation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 means	nsubj
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	parataxis
21	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 means	ccomp
22	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keeping	obj
23	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keeping	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 future	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 future	det
26	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 safe	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Museums		people			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not touch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Museums not said here	art				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme art=Co-Theme
3	damage	present	oils from hands and sweat	paint		time		vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument paint=Patient
4	mean	present	conservation					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	keep	gerund		art			safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=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:5.

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 ×2, 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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