Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 5

Abstract art does not show recognisable things; some artists painted one colour or simple shapes on purpose to make people think about colour, size and feeling.

Who acts: Abstract art, artists, people · What happens: not show, paint, make, think · To what, where: recognisable things, one colour, purpose, people

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 (Abstract art, artists, 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	Abstract	abstract	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 art	amod
2	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 show	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 show	advmod
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	recognisable	recognisable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 painted	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 artists	det
10	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 painted	nsubj
11	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 show	parataxis
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 colour	nummod
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 painted	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 shapes	cc
15	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shapes	amod
16	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 colour	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 purpose	case
18	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 painted	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 painted	advcl
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 make	obj
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	xcomp
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 colour	case
24	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 think	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 size	punct
26	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 colour	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 feeling	cc
28	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 colour	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not show	present · do-support	Abstract art	recognisable things			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
2	paint	past	some artists	one colour or simple shapes	purpose		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme on purpose=Destination
3	make	to-infinitive	some artists not said here	people			tree rules
4	think speech: other	infinitive	people not said here			about colour and size and feeling	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about colour=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:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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