Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 1

Picture Alfie at the Tate Modern scoffing at a canvas of one colour: copying it is easy now, but the artist was among the first to try the idea, and people still argue whether it is great art; both opinions are allowed.

Who acts: you, Alfie, copying, artist, people · What happens: picture, scoffing, copy, be, try, argue · To what, where: Alfie, canvas, colour, idea, great art, opinions · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Alfie, copying, artist), 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	Alfie	Alfie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 scoffing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Modern	det
5	Tate	tate	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Modern	compound
6	Modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scoffing	amod
7	scoffing	scoffing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Alfie	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 canvas	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 canvas	det
10	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scoffing	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 colour	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 colour	nummod
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 canvas	nmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 copying	punct
15	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 easy	csubj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 copying	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 easy	cop
18	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Picture	parataxis
19	now	now	ADV	_	18 easy	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 first	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 first	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 artist	det
23	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 first	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 first	cop
25	among	among	ADP	_	27 first	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 first	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 easy	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 try	mark
29	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 first	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 idea	det
31	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 try	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 argue	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 argue	cc
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 argue	nsubj
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 argue	advmod
36	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 first	conj
37	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	41 art	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 art	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 art	cop
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 art	amod
41	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 argue	ccomp
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 opinions	punct
43	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	44 opinions	det
44	opinions	opinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 allowed	nsubj:pass
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 allowed	aux:pass
46	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Picture	parataxis
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	Alfie				vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent alfie=Theme
2	scoffing	gerund	Alfie not said here		a canvas of one colour			tree rules
3	copy	gerund		colour				vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	present	copying			now	easy property	tree rules
5	is	past	the artist				first property	tree rules
6	try	to-infinitive		the idea				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Eventuality
7	argue speech: disagree	present	people			still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	artist	great art				tree rules
9	allow	present · passive		both opinions				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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: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 ×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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