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title: Modern art is a loose name for art from about the 1860s to the 1970s… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics
description: Modern art is a loose name for art from about the 1860s to the 1970s, and people often use it for newer art too; much of it cares more about an idea or a feeling than about being pretty. Who acts: Modern art, people, much. A sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» of t
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# Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 0

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Modern art is a loose name for art from about the 1860s to the 1970s, and people often use it for newer art too; much of it cares more about an idea or a feeling than about being pretty.

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**Who acts:** Modern art, people, much · **What happens:** be, use, care · **To what, where:** loose name, 1860s, art

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» 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 (Modern art, people, much), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:0
# text = Modern art is a loose name for art from about the 1860s to the 1970s, and people often use it for newer art too; much of it cares more about an idea or a feeling than about being pretty.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	1860s	1860	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	1970s	1970s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	newer	new	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
32	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	cop	_	_
41	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	31	advcl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Modern art | a loose name |  | the 1860s to the 1970s |  | for art | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | people | art |  |  |  | for newer art; often *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for art=Eventuality |
| 3 | **care** | present | much of art |  |  |  |  | about a idea or a feeling | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about idea=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | much of art *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |

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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:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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