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title: Every generation has its craze dance: your gran may have done the tw… — Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet · tree and pragmatics
description: Every generation has its craze dance: your gran may have done the twist in the 1960s, your parents the Macarena in the 1990s, and you learn a new one online in ten minutes. Who acts: generation, gran, you. A sentence of the lesson «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet» of the arts course of Mova's pr
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# Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, sentence 1

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Every generation has its craze dance: your gran may have done the twist in the 1960s, your parents the Macarena in the 1990s, and you learn a new one online in ten minutes.

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**Who acts:** generation, gran, you · **What happens:** have, do, learn, dance · **To what, where:** craze dance, twist, 1960s, new one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet» 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 (generation, gran, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:029-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet.lesson:1
# text = Every generation has its craze dance: your gran may have done the twist in the 1960s, your parents the Macarena in the 1990s, and you learn a new one online in ten minutes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 029-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	craze	craze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	1960s	1960s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Macarena	macarena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	online	online	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every generation | generation's craze dance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | may · perfect | your gran and your parents and the Macarena in the 1990s | the twist |  | the 1960s |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twist=Eventuality |
| 3 | **learn** | present | you | a new one |  |  | minute | online *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 4 | **dance** |  | generation |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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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