--- title: A popular story says Irish dancers kept their arms still to hide dan… — Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet · tree and pragmatics description: A popular story says Irish dancers kept their arms still to hide dancing from rulers, but historians say there is no evidence for it. Who acts: popular story, Irish dancers, historians, evidence. 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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 (popular story, Irish dancers, historians, evidence), 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:12 # text = A popular story says Irish dancers kept their arms still to hide dancing from rulers, but historians say there is no evidence for it. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Irish Irish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 dancers dancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 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 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 13 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 rulers ruler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a popular story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | past | Irish dancers | dancers's arms | | | still | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 3 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Irish dancers *not said here* | dancing | | rulers | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dancing=Patient from ruler=Beneficiary | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | historians | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **be** | present | no evidence for story | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:029-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet.lesson:12`. **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): no change. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/11/) - next →: [Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/)