Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 3

A fair test is to give it a real look first: stand in front of it for a minute, ask what idea the artist was testing and what it makes you think, then decide; art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make people laugh or help them remember.

Who acts: fair test, artist, art, you, questions, people · What happens: be, stand, ask, test, make, think · To what, where: art, front, idea, questions, people · 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 (fair test, artist, art, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 test	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 test	amod
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 look	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	amod
10	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 give	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
13	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 give	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 front	case
15	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stand	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 front	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 minute	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 minute	det
20	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stand	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
22	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 give	parataxis
23	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	24 idea	det
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 testing	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 artist	det
26	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 testing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 testing	aux
28	testing	test	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 ask	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 makes	cc
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 makes	obj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 makes	nsubj
32	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 testing	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 makes	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 decide	punct
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 decide	advmod
37	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 give	parataxis
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 aim	punct
39	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 aim	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 aim	aux
41	aim	aim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 decide	ccomp
42	to	to	PART	_	44 beautiful	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 beautiful	cop
44	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 aim	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 shock	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 shock	cc
47	also	also	ADV	_	49 shock	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 shock	mark
49	shock	shock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 aim	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 ask	punct
51	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 shock	conj
52	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 ask	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 make	punct
54	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 ask	xcomp
55	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 make	obj
56	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 make	xcomp
57	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 help	cc
58	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 laugh	conj
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 help	obj
60	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 help	xcomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a fair test		art			first, give property	tree rules
2	stand	infinitive				front of art	minute		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	test	past · progressive	the artist	what idea					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme
5	make	present	art						tree rules
6	think speech: other	infinitive	you						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	decide	infinitive					then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	aim	can	art						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
9	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	art not said here					beautiful property	tree rules
10	shock	to-infinitive	art not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	ask speech: ask	infinitive	art not said here	questions					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent question=Recipient clause=Topic
12	make not said to happen	infinitive	questions not said here	people					tree rules
13	laugh not said to happen	infinitive	people not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
14	help	infinitive	people not said here	people					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
15	remember	infinitive	people not said here						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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