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description: Mutt", to an art show, asking who decides what art is; an everyday object shown as art is called a readymade. Who acts: art show, art. 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 e
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# Modern art: "my little brother could do that", sentence 8

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Mutt", to an art show, asking who decides what art is; an everyday object shown as art is called a readymade.

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**Who acts:** art show, art · **What happens:** ask, decide, be, show, call · **To what, where:** everyday object · **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 (art show, art), 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:8
# text = Mutt", to an art show, asking who decides what art is; an everyday object shown as art is called a readymade.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Mutt	mutt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	ccomp	_	_
13	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	everyday	everyday	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	readymade	readymade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | a art show *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **decide** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | art |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** *in a quote* | participle |  | a everyday object *not said here* |  |  |  | as art | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | a everyday object |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:8`.

**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): 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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