Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, sentence 6

Ballet dancers dance en pointe, on the tips of their toes, in special stiff shoes after years of training; teachers wait until feet are strong enough, often around age 11 or 12.

Who acts: Ballet dancers, teachers, feet · What happens: dance, wait, be · To what, where: tips, 11

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 (Ballet dancers, teachers, feet), 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	Ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dancers	compound
2	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dance	nsubj
3	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	en	en	ADP	Foreign=Yes	5 pointe	case
5	pointe	pointe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dance	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tips	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tips	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tips	det
9	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dance	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 toes	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 toes	nmod:poss
12	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tips	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shoes	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 shoes	case
15	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shoes	amod
16	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shoes	amod
17	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dance	obl
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 years	case
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dance	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 training	case
21	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 years	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 wait	punct
23	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wait	nsubj
24	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dance	parataxis
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 strong	mark
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 strong	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 strong	cop
28	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wait	advcl
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 strong	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 11	punct
31	often	often	ADV	_	34 11	advmod
32	around	around	ADP	_	33 age	case
33	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 11	obl
34	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 wait	obl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 12	cc
36	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 11	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dance	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	Ballet dancers		the tips of dancers's toes	year	en pointe; in special stiff shoes	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tip=Location
2	wait	present	teachers	11				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	feet				enough, strong property	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:029-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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