--- title: Many objects in European museums were taken from other countries in… — Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is… · tree and pragmatics description: Many objects in European museums were taken from other countries in colonial times; some countries ask for them back, people disagree about what to return, and some objects have been returned. Who acts: countries, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countries, people), 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:7 # text = Many objects in European museums were taken from other countries in colonial times; some countries ask for them back, people disagree about what to return, and some objects have been returned. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 museums museum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 colonial colonial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 23 obl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past · passive | | Many objects in European museums | | other countries | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from country=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **ask back** *speech: ask* | present | some countries | | | | | for objects *= object* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **disagree** | present | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | | 4 | **return** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **return** | present · perfect · passive | | some objects | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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](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:7`. **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. **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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