--- title: Some dances carry deep meaning: the Māori haka is used for welcomes,… — Dances of the world and dancing at parties · tree and pragmatics description: Some dances carry deep meaning: the Māori haka is used for welcomes, celebrations, funerals and challenges, and the Japanese Bon Odori honours the spirits of family members from long ago, so they deserve respect. Who acts: dances, Japanese Bon. 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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 (dances, Japanese Bon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:2 # text = Some dances carry deep meaning: the Māori haka is used for welcomes, celebrations, funerals and challenges, and the Japanese Bon Odori honours the spirits of family members from long ago, so they deserve respect. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 dances dance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 haka haka NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 welcomes welcome NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 celebrations celebration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 funerals funeral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 challenges challenge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Japanese Japanese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Bon Bon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 Odori Odori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 honours honour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 nmod _ _ 34 ago ago ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 deserve deserve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . 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 | **carry** | present | some dances | deep meaning | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | | 2 | **use** | present · passive | | the Māori haka | | | | for welcomes and celebrations and funerals and challenges | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for welcome=Eventuality | | 3 | **honour** | present | the Japanese Bon | the spirits of family members | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **deserve** | present | dances *= dance* | respect | | | | | 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:030-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties.lesson:2`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Dances of the world and dancing at par…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/1/) - next →: [Dances of the world and dancing at par…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/)