--- title: Some modern art is a puzzle about what art even is: a shop-bought ur… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics description: Some modern art is a puzzle about what art even is: a shop-bought urinal signed with a fake name, a banana taped to a wall, a pile of sweets visitors may take, or a dark room of mirrors and lights that seems to go on for ever. Who acts: modern art, visitors, dark room. 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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 (modern art, visitors, dark room), 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:2 # text = Some modern art is a puzzle about what art even is: a shop-bought urinal signed with a fake name, a banana taped to a wall, a pile of sweets visitors may take, or a dark room of mirrors and lights that seems to go on for ever. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 puzzle puzzle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 bought buy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 urinal urinal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 18 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 banana banana NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 26 taped tape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 visitors visitor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 36 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl:relcl 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ 51 on on ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 50 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | some modern art | a puzzle | | | | about art | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **buy** | participle | | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sign** | participle | | a bought urinal and a banana and a pile of sweets or a dark room of mirrors and lights *not said here* | | | | with a fake name | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with name=Theme | | 5 | **tape** | participle | | a banana *not said here* | | | | to a wall | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to wall=Co-Patient | | 6 | **take** | may | visitors | sweets *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | | 7 | **seem** | present | a dark room of mirrors and lights | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 8 | **go on** | to-infinitive | a dark room of mirrors and lights *not said here* | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:arts:018-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that.lesson:2`. **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, 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. 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