Dances of the world and dancing at parties, sentence 1

Many are circle or line dances where everyone links arms or hands and follows the feet, so a beginner can join in after five minutes, the way you join a skipping rhyme in the playground.

Who acts: Many, everyone, beginner, you · What happens: be, link, follow, join in, join, skip · To what, where: circle, arms, feet, skipping rhyme, playground

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dances of the world and dancing at parties» 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 (Many, everyone, beginner, you), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 circle	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 circle	cop
3	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 dances	cc
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dances	compound
6	dances	dance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 circle	conj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 links	advmod
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 links	nsubj
9	links	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dances	acl:relcl
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 links	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 hands	cc
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arms	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 follows	cc
14	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 links	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feet	det
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 follows	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 join	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 join	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 beginner	det
20	beginner	beginner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 join	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 join	aux
22	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 links	conj
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 join	advmod
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 minutes	case
25	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 minutes	nummod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 join	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 way	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 links	obl:unmarked
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 join	nsubj
31	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 way	acl:relcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 rhyme	det
33	skipping	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 rhyme	amod
34	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 join	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 playground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 playground	det
37	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 join	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dances	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Many	circle or line dances				tree rules
2	link	present	everyone	arms or hands			the way obl:unmarked	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	follow	present	everyone not said here	the feet				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
4	join in	can	a beginner			minute		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	join	present	you	a skipping rhyme	the playground			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient
6	skip	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:1.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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