Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 17
Art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make people laugh or remember something.
Who acts: Art, people · What happens: aim, be, shock, ask, make, laugh · To what, where: questions, people, something
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 (Art, people), 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 | Art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aim | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 aim | aux |
| 3 | aim | aim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beautiful | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 aim | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shock | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 shock | cc |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 shock | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 shock | mark |
| 11 | shock | shock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 aim | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 aim | conj |
| 14 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ask | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 aim | conj |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 remember | cc |
| 20 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 laugh | conj |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 remember | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aim | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim | can | Art | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | Art not said here | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shock | to-infinitive | Art not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | Art not said here | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | Art not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | laugh | infinitive | people not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | remember | infinitive | people not said here | something | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
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:17.
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): no change. 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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