Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 9

Jackson Pollock laid huge canvases on the floor and dripped and flung paint with control; people still argue about the skill, and painters who try to copy it usually find it hard.

Who acts: Jackson Pollock, people, painters · What happens: lay, drip, fling, argue, try, copy · To what, where: huge canvases, floor, paint

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 (Jackson Pollock, people, painters), 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	Jackson	Jackson	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pollock	compound
2	Pollock	Pollock	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 canvases	amod
5	canvases	canvas	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 floor	det
8	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dripped	cc
10	dripped	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flung	cc
12	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dripped	conj
13	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flung	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 control	case
15	control	control	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 paint	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 argue	punct
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 argue	nsubj
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 argue	advmod
19	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 skill	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 skill	det
22	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 argue	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 painters	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 painters	cc
25	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 skill	appos
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 try	nsubj
27	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 painters	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 copy	mark
29	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 try	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 copy	obj
31	usually	usually	ADV	_	32 find	advmod
32	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 try	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 find	obj
34	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 find	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Jackson Pollock	huge canvases	the floor			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent canvas=Theme on floor=Destination
2	drip	past	Jackson Pollock not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	fling	past	Jackson Pollock not said here	paint			with control	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme
4	argue speech: disagree	present	people			still	about the skill	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about skill=Topic
5	try	present	painters					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	copy not said to happen	to-infinitive	painters not said here	paint				vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	find	present	painters not said here	paint			hard, usually property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:9.

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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