Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there, sentence 7
Many objects in European museums were taken from other countries in colonial times; some countries ask for them back, people disagree about what to return, and some objects have been returned.
Who acts: countries, people · What happens: take, ask back, disagree, return · To what, where: Many objects, other countries, objects
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 (countries, people), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 objects | amod |
| 2 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 museums | case |
| 4 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 museums | amod |
| 5 | museums | museum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 objects | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 countries | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 countries | amod |
| 10 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 12 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 countries | det |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | obl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 ask | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 disagree | punct |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 disagree | nsubj |
| 23 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ask | parataxis |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 disagree | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 return | mark |
| 27 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 what | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 returned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 returned | cc |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 objects | det |
| 31 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 returned | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 returned | aux:pass |
| 34 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | Many objects in European museums | other countries | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from country=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask back speech: ask | present | some countries | for objects = object | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | disagree | present | people | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | return | present · perfect · passive | some objects | vn send-11.1 «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, 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:7.
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 ×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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