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title: Minimalism is art that uses very little, like simple shapes; whether… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics
description: Minimalism is art that uses very little, like simple shapes; whether a nearly empty work is deep or a con is argued. Who acts: Minimalism, art, empty work. A sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 16

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Minimalism is art that uses very little, like simple shapes; whether a nearly empty work is deep or a con is argued.

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**Who acts:** Minimalism, art, empty work · **What happens:** be, use, argue · **To what, where:** art, little, con

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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 (Minimalism, art, empty work), 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:16
# text = Minimalism is art that uses very little, like simple shapes; whether a nearly empty work is deep or a con is argued.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Minimalism	minimalism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	con	con	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	argued	argue	VERB	:	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Minimalism | art |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | art | little |  |  |  | like simple shapes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a empty work |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  | a con |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |

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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:16`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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