Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 2

Some modern art is a puzzle about what art even is: a shop-bought urinal signed with a fake name, a banana taped to a wall, a pile of sweets visitors may take, or a dark room of mirrors and lights that seems to go on for ever.

Who acts: modern art, visitors, dark room · What happens: be, buy, sign, tape, take, seem · To what, where: puzzle, bought urinal, banana, 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 (modern art, visitors, dark room), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 art	det
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 art	amod
3	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puzzle	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 puzzle	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puzzle	det
6	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 art	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 art	nsubj
9	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puzzle	nmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 is	advmod
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 puzzle	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 urinal	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 urinal	det
14	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bought	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 shop	punct
16	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 urinal	amod
17	urinal	urinal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puzzle	appos
18	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 urinal	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 name	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 name	det
21	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 name	amod
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 signed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 banana	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 banana	det
25	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 urinal	conj
26	taped	tape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 banana	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 wall	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wall	det
29	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pile	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pile	det
32	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 urinal	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 sweets	case
34	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pile	nmod
35	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 take	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sweets	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 room	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 room	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 room	det
41	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 room	amod
42	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 urinal	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 mirrors	case
44	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 room	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 lights	cc
46	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 mirrors	conj
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 seems	nsubj
48	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 room	acl:relcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 go	mark
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 seems	xcomp
51	on	on	ADP	_	50 go	compound:prt
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 ever	case
53	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 go	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 puzzle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed hedge=0

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	some modern art	a puzzle	about art	tree rules
2	be	present				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy	participle				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	sign	participle		a bought urinal and a banana and a pile of sweets or a dark room of mirrors and lights not said here	with a fake name	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with name=Theme
5	tape	participle		a banana not said here	to a wall	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to wall=Co-Patient
6	take	may	visitors	sweets not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme
7	seem	present	a dark room of mirrors and lights			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	go on	to-infinitive	a dark room of mirrors and lights not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.

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, R6-punct-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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