Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, sentence 3

The hardest dances, like ballet on the tips of the toes or the big squat-kicks of hopak, need years of training for strength and balance, so dancers build up slowly with a teacher.

Who acts: hardest dances, dancers · What happens: need, build up, kick · To what, where: hopak

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 (hardest dances, dancers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dances	det
2	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 dances	amod
3	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 need	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ballet	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 ballet	case
6	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dances	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tips	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tips	det
9	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ballet	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 toes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toes	det
12	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tips	nmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 kicks	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kicks	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kicks	amod
16	squat	squat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kicks	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 squat	punct
18	kicks	kick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 toes	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 hopak	case
20	hopak	hopak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kicks	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 toes	punct
22	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 need	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 training	case
25	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 years	nmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 strength	case
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 training	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 balance	cc
29	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 strength	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 build	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 build	advmod
32	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 build	nsubj
33	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 need	parataxis
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 build	compound:prt
35	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	33 build	advmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 teacher	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 teacher	det
38	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 build	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the hardest dances like ballet on the tips of the toes or the big squat kicks of hopak		year		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	build up	present	dancers			with a teacher; slowly property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	kick			hopak			nom kick «act transitive»: of=patient

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: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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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