Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 11
People argue whether the banana is a clever joke about money and art or proof that the art market is silly.
Who acts: People, banana, art market · What happens: argue, be · To what, where: clever joke, proof · 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 (People, banana, art market), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 argue | nsubj |
| 2 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 joke | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 banana | det |
| 5 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joke | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 joke | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 joke | det |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 joke | amod |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 argue | ccomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joke | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 art | cc |
| 13 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 money | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 proof | cc |
| 15 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 money | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 silly | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 market | det |
| 18 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 market | compound |
| 19 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 silly | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 silly | cop |
| 21 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 proof | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 argue | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | People | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the banana | a clever joke | about money and art or proof | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the art market | proof not said here | silly 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:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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