Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 0
Modern art is a loose name for art from about the 1860s to the 1970s, and people often use it for newer art too; much of it cares more about an idea or a feeling than about being pretty.
Who acts: Modern art, people, much · What happens: be, use, care · To what, where: loose name, 1860s, art
This is a sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» 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 (Modern art, people, much), 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 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 art | amod |
| 2 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 5 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 name | amod |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 art | case |
| 8 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 1860s | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 1860s | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 1860s | det |
| 12 | 1860s | 1860 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 6 name | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 1970s | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 1970s | det |
| 15 | 1970s | 1970s | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 12 1860s | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 use | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 people | cc |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 use | nsubj |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 use | advmod |
| 20 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 use | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 art | case |
| 23 | newer | new | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 art | amod |
| 24 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 use | obl |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 use | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 cares | punct |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cares | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 much | nmod |
| 30 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 use | parataxis |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 cares | advmod |
| 32 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 idea | case |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 idea | det |
| 34 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cares | obl |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 feeling | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 feeling | det |
| 37 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 idea | conj |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 41 pretty | mark |
| 39 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 41 pretty | mark |
| 40 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 pretty | cop |
| 41 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 31 more | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Modern art | a loose name | the 1860s to the 1970s | for art | tree rules | ||
| 2 | use | present | people | art | for newer art; often property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for art=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | care | present | much of art | about a idea or a feeling | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about idea=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | much of art not said here | pretty property | tree rules |
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:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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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