--- title: The "Tank Man" photo from Beijing in 1989 shows an unknown man stand… — Photography and phone cameras · tree and pragmatics description: The "Tank Man" photo from Beijing in 1989 shows an unknown man standing in front of a line of tanks; it captured a real moment, and photographers risked a lot to take and save it. Who acts: Man photo, unknown man, photo, photographers. 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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 (Man photo, unknown man, photo, photographers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:10 # text = The "Tank Man" photo from Beijing in 1989 shows an unknown man standing in front of a line of tanks; it captured a real moment, and photographers risked a lot to take and save it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 020-photography-and-phone-cameras.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 Tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 photo photo NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Beijing Beijing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 1989 1989 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 captured capture VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 photographers photographer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 risked risk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the Man photo from Beijing in 1989 | | a unknown man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | a unknown man *not said here* | | | front of a line of tanks | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | | 3 | **capture** | past | photo | | | | moment | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **risk** | past | photographers | a lot | | | | | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Pivot | | 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | photographers *not said here* | a lot *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **save** | infinitive | photographers *not said here* | photo | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:020-photography-and-phone-cameras.lesson:10`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Photography and phone cameras, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/9/) - next →: [Photography and phone cameras, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/20-photography-and-phone-cameras/)