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description: The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama makes Infinity Mirror Rooms where mirrors and lights make the space look endless; art that fills a room is called an installation. Who acts: Japanese artist, mirrors, space, art. A sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» of the arts cou
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# Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 13

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The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama makes Infinity Mirror Rooms where mirrors and lights make the space look endless; art that fills a room is called an installation.

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**Who acts:** Japanese artist, mirrors, space, art · **What happens:** make, look, fill, call · **To what, where:** Mirror Rooms, space, room, art · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Japanese artist, mirrors, space, art), 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:13
# text = The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama makes Infinity Mirror Rooms where mirrors and lights make the space look endless; art that fills a room is called an installation.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Yayoi	Yayoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Kusama	Kusama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Infinity	infinity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	Mirror	mirror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	Rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	mirrors	mirror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	installation	installation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the Japanese artist | Mirror Rooms |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product |
| 2 | **make** | present | mirrors and lights | the space |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | the space *not said here* |  |  |  |  | endless *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fill** | present | art | a room |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | art |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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