--- title: Jackson Pollock laid huge canvases on the floor and dripped and flun… — Modern art: "my little brother could do that" · tree and pragmatics description: Jackson Pollock laid huge canvases on the floor and dripped and flung paint with control; people still argue about the skill, and painters who try to copy it usually find it hard. Who acts: Jackson Pollock, people, painters. 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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 (Jackson Pollock, people, painters), 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:9 # text = Jackson Pollock laid huge canvases on the floor and dripped and flung paint with control; people still argue about the skill, and painters who try to copy it usually find it hard. # 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 Jackson Jackson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Pollock Pollock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 canvases canvas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 dripped drip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 control control NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 still still ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 painters painter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | Jackson Pollock | huge canvases | | the floor | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent canvas=Theme on floor=Destination | | 2 | **drip** | past | Jackson Pollock *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 3 | **fling** | past | Jackson Pollock *not said here* | paint | | | | with control | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | still | about the skill | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about skill=Topic | | 5 | **try** | present | painters | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **copy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | painters *not said here* | paint | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **find** | present | painters *not said here* | paint | | | | hard, usually *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. 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