--- title: Abstract art does not show recognisable things; some artists painted… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics description: Abstract art does not show recognisable things; some artists painted one colour or simple shapes on purpose to make people think about colour, size and feeling. Who acts: Abstract art, artists, people. 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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 (Abstract art, artists, 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:5 # text = Abstract art does not show recognisable things; some artists painted one colour or simple shapes on purpose to make people think about colour, size and feeling. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Abstract abstract ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 recognisable recognisable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 artists artist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **show** | present · do-support | Abstract art | recognisable things | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 2 | **paint** | past | some artists | one colour or simple shapes | | purpose | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme on purpose=Destination | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | some artists *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | about colour and size and feeling | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about colour=Topic | 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:5`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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