Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 6

Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.

Who acts: such paintings, some, paintings, others · What happens: be, argue, say · To what, where: great art, real life, joke · 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 (such paintings, some, paintings, others), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 art	mark
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paintings	amod
3	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 art	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 art	cop
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 art	amod
6	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 argued	csubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 argued	aux:pass
8	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 argued	punct
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 argued	parataxis
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 powerful	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 powerful	cop
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 say	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 life	case
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 life	amod
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 powerful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 say	nsubj
20	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 joke	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 joke	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 joke	det
24	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 argued	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	such paintings	great art			tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	present · passive					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»
3	say speech: assert	present	some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	paintings = painting		real life	powerful property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	others				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	others = other	a joke			tree rules

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:6.

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, R8-pos-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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