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title: Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, an… — Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet · tree and pragmatics
description: Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage. Who acts: Dancing, many dancers. A sentence of the lesson «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, sentence 16

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Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage.

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**Who acts:** Dancing, many dancers · **What happens:** dance, build, be · **To what, where:** group, confidence

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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 (Dancing, many dancers), 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:16
# text = Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | a group |  | first *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location |
| 2 | **build** | can | Dancing | the confidence |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset confidence=Product |
| 3 | **dance** | to-infinitive | Dancing *not said here* | the confidence *not said here* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | many dancers |  |  |  |  | off stage; shy *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:16`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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