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description: Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke. Who acts: such paintings, some, paintings, others. A sentence of the lesson «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 6

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Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.

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**Who acts:** such paintings, some, paintings, others · **What happens:** be, argue, say · **To what, where:** great art, real life, joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (such paintings, some, paintings, others), 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:6
# text = Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	csubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
11	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | such paintings | great art |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | paintings *= painting* |  |  | real life |  | powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | others *= other* | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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