Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 12
The first Mickey Mouse, from the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie, became free for anyone to use in the United States in 2024, but later Mickeys and Disney's brand are still owned.
Who acts: first Mickey Mouse, anyone, Disney · What happens: become, use, own, brand · To what, where: United, Mickeys
This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» 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 (first Mickey Mouse, anyone, Disney), 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 | 4 Mouse | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Mouse | amod |
| 3 | Mickey | mickey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mouse | compound |
| 4 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Steamboat | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Steamboat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cartoon | det |
| 8 | 1928 | 1928 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 cartoon | nummod |
| 9 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Steamboat | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Steamboat | Steamboat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mouse | appos |
| 11 | Willie | Willie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Steamboat | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mouse | punct |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 use | mark |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 use | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 use | mark |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 free | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 United | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 States | det |
| 21 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 18 use | obl |
| 22 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 United | flat |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 2024 | case |
| 24 | 2024 | 2024 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 use | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 owned | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 owned | cc |
| 27 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 owned | advmod |
| 28 | Mickeys | mickey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 owned | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 brand | cc |
| 30 | Disney | Disney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 brand | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 Disney | case |
| 32 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Mickeys | conj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 owned | aux:pass |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 owned | advmod |
| 35 | owned | own | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 became | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the first Mickey Mouse | free property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | anyone | United | in 2024 | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | own | present · passive | Mickeys and Disney's brand | still | late property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | brand | Disney | nom brand «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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): R5-strong ×3. 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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