Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, sentence 12

A popular story says Irish dancers kept their arms still to hide dancing from rulers, but historians say there is no evidence for it.

Who acts: popular story, Irish dancers, historians, evidence · What happens: say, keep, hide, be · To what, where: arms, dancing, rulers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet» 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 (popular story, Irish dancers, historians, evidence), 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 story	det
2	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dancers	amod
6	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obj
10	still	still	ADV	_	7 kept	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 kept	advcl
13	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hide	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 rulers	case
15	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hide	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
18	historians	historian	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 evidence	det
23	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 evidence	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a popular story				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	past	Irish dancers	dancers's arms		still	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	hide	to-infinitive	Irish dancers not said here	dancing	rulers		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dancing=Patient from ruler=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	present	historians				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be	present	no evidence for story		there		vn exist-47.1 «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:029-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet.lesson:12.

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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