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title: Museums also raise big questions: some objects were taken from other… — Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Museums also raise big questions: some objects were taken from other countries in colonial times and people argue about sending them back, and in wars museums hide their art because it holds a country's memory. Who acts: Museums, people, museum. A sentence of the lesson «Museums and galleries: how t
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# Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there, sentence 3

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Museums also raise big questions: some objects were taken from other countries in colonial times and people argue about sending them back, and in wars museums hide their art because it holds a country's memory.

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**Who acts:** Museums, people, museum · **What happens:** raise, take, argue, send back, hide, hold · **To what, where:** big questions, objects, other countries, art, wars, memory

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» 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 (Museums, people, museum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:017-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there.lesson:3
# text = Museums also raise big questions: some objects were taken from other countries in colonial times and people argue about sending them back, and in wars museums hide their art because it holds a country's memory.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 017-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2
1	Museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	raise	raise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	colonial	colonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wars	wars	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
28	museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present | Museums | big questions |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | some objects |  | other countries | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send back** | gerund | people *not said here* | objects *= object* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **hide** | present | museums | objects's art |  | wars |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent art=Patient in wars=Location |
| 6 | **hold** | present | museum | a country's memory |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:017-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there.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 ×2. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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