--- title: Felix Gonzalez-Torres made a pile of sweets weighing the same as his… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics description: Felix Gonzalez-Torres made a pile of sweets weighing the same as his partner, who was ill; visitors may take sweets, the pile shrinks, and the gallery refills it. Who acts: Felix, sweets, partner, visitors. 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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 (Felix, sweets, partner, visitors), 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:15 # text = Felix Gonzalez-Torres made a pile of sweets weighing the same as his partner, who was ill; visitors may take sweets, the pile shrinks, and the gallery refills it. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Felix Felix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 Gonzalez Gonzalez PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 4 Torres Torres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 weighing weigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obj _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 partner partner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 gallery gallery NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 refills refill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Felix | a pile of sweets | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Product | | 2 | **weigh** | gerund | sweets *not said here* | the same | | | | as Felix's partner | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value | | 3 | **is** | past | Felix's partner | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | may | visitors | sweets | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | | 5 | **shrink** | present | the pile | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **refill** | present | the gallery | pile | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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