Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 16

Minimalism is art that uses very little, like simple shapes; whether a nearly empty work is deep or a con is argued.

Who acts: Minimalism, art, empty work · What happens: be, use, argue · To what, where: art, little, con

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 (Minimalism, art, empty work), 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	Minimalism	minimalism	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 art	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 art	cop
3	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 uses	nsubj
5	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 art	acl:relcl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 little	advmod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 uses	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shapes	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 shapes	case
10	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shapes	amod
11	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uses	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 deep	punct
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 deep	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 work	det
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 empty	advmod
16	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 work	amod
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deep	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 deep	cop
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shapes	parataxis
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 argued	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 con	det
22	con	con	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 argued	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 argued	aux:pass
24	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 deep	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 art	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Minimalism	art		tree rules
2	use	present	art	little	like simple shapes	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
3	is	present	a empty work		deep property	tree rules
4	argue speech: disagree	present · passive		a con		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

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:16.

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 ×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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