--- title: In Irish stepdance, competition dancers keep their arms still and mo… — Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet · tree and pragmatics description: In Irish stepdance, competition dancers keep their arms still and move their feet very fast; the show Riverdance made it world famous in 1994. Who acts: competition dancers, show. 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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 (competition dancers, show), 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:11 # text = In Irish stepdance, competition dancers keep their arms still and move their feet very fast; the show Riverdance made it world famous in 1994. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 stepdance stepdance NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 competition competition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 dancers dancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 show show NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 Riverdance Riverdance PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 21 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advmod _ _ 24 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 1994 1994 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | competition dancers | dancers's arms | | Irish stepdance | still | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme in stepdance=Location | | 2 | **move** | present | competition dancers *not said here* | dancers's feet | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | | 3 | **make** | past | the show | stepdance | | | | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:029-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet.lesson:11`. **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, 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: [Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/10/) - next →: [Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/)