--- title: The hardest dances, like ballet on the tips of the toes or the big s… — Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet · tree and pragmatics description: The hardest dances, like ballet on the tips of the toes or the big squat-kicks of hopak, need years of training for strength and balance, so dancers build up slowly with a teacher. Who acts: hardest dances, dancers. 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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 (hardest dances, 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:3 # text = The hardest dances, like ballet on the tips of the toes or the big squat-kicks of hopak, need years of training for strength and balance, so dancers build up slowly with a teacher. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 hardest hard ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 dances dance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ballet ballet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 squat squat NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 kicks kick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 hopak hopak NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 22 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 dancers dancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | the hardest dances like ballet on the tips of the toes or the big squat kicks of hopak | | | | year | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **build up** | present | dancers | | | | | with a teacher; slowly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **kick** | | | hopak | | | | | nom kick «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:3`. **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. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/1/) - next →: [Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/)