--- title: Art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics description: Art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make people laugh or remember something. Who acts: Art, people. 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 and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Modern art: "my little brother could d…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/) / 17 # Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 17 Art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make people laugh or remember something. **Who acts:** Art, people · **What happens:** aim, be, shock, ask, make, laugh · **To what, where:** questions, people, something 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 (Art, people), 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:17 # text = Art can aim to be beautiful, but also to shock, ask questions, make people laugh or remember something. # 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): no change 1 Art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 aim aim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 also also ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 shock shock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 14 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **aim** | can | Art | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Art *not said here* | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **shock** | to-infinitive | Art *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Art *not said here* | questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | Art *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **laugh** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **remember** | infinitive | people *not said here* | something | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent something=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. 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