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title: Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the… — Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet · tree and pragmatics
description: Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries. Who acts: Falling, many viral videos. 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 clause.
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# Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet, sentence 8

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Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries.

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**Who acts:** Falling, many viral videos · **What happens:** be, learn, dance, take · **To what, where:** part, dancer dozens

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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 (Falling, many viral videos), 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:8
# text = Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Falling	falling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	dancer	dancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13: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 | **is a** | present | Falling | part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **dance** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | many viral videos | dancer dozens of tries |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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, R6-punct-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/).

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