Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 15
Felix Gonzalez-Torres made a pile of sweets weighing the same as his partner, who was ill; visitors may take sweets, the pile shrinks, and the gallery refills it.
Who acts: Felix, sweets, partner, visitors, pile, gallery · What happens: make, weigh, be, take, shrink, refill · To what, where: pile, same, sweets
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 (Felix, sweets, partner, visitors), 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 | Felix | Felix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Gonzalez | Gonzalez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Felix | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Felix | punct |
| 4 | Torres | Torres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Felix | flat |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pile | det |
| 7 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sweets | case |
| 9 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pile | nmod |
| 10 | weighing | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sweets | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 same | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weighing | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 partner | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 partner | nmod:poss |
| 15 | partner | partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weighing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ill | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 ill | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ill | cop |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 partner | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 take | punct |
| 21 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | aux |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | parataxis |
| 24 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shrinks | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pile | det |
| 27 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shrinks | nsubj |
| 28 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 refills | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 refills | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gallery | det |
| 32 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 refills | nsubj |
| 33 | refills | refill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 refills | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Felix | a pile of sweets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Product | ||||
| 2 | weigh | gerund | sweets not said here | the same | as Felix's partner | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value | |||
| 3 | is | past | Felix's partner | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | may | visitors | sweets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shrink | present | the pile | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | refill | present | the gallery | pile | 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:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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