--- title: Ballet dancers dance en pointe, on the tips of their toes, in specia… — Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet · tree and pragmatics description: Ballet dancers dance en pointe, on the tips of their toes, in special stiff shoes after years of training; teachers wait until feet are strong enough, often around age 11 or 12. Who acts: Ballet dancers, teachers, feet. 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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 (Ballet dancers, teachers, feet), 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:6 # text = Ballet dancers dance en pointe, on the tips of their toes, in special stiff shoes after years of training; teachers wait until feet are strong enough, often around age 11 or 12. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ballet ballet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dancers dancer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 en en ADP IN Foreign=Yes 5 case _ _ 5 pointe pointe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 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 3 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 18 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 training training NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 wait wait VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 29 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 often often ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 around around ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 34 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | present | Ballet dancers | | | the tips of dancers's toes | year | en pointe; in special stiff shoes | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tip=Location | | 2 | **wait** | present | teachers | 11 | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | feet | | | | | enough, strong *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/5/) - next →: [Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/29-dance-from-tiktok-dances-to-ballet/)