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title: Ballet began in the courts of Renaissance Italy and was developed in… — Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ballet began in the courts of Renaissance Italy and was developed in France, especially under King Louis XIV, which is why many ballet words are French. Who acts: Ballet. A sentence of the lesson «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» of the arts course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz, sentence 14

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Ballet began in the courts of Renaissance Italy and was developed in France, especially under King Louis XIV, which is why many ballet words are French.

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**Who acts:** Ballet · **What happens:** begin, develop, be · **To what, where:** courts, France

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» 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 (Ballet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:14
# text = Ballet began in the courts of Renaissance Italy and was developed in France, especially under King Louis XIV, which is why many ballet words are French.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.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): no change
1	Ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Renaissance	Renaissance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	XIV	XIV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	ballet	ballet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Ballet |  |  | the courts of Renaissance Italy |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **develop** | past · passive | Ballet *not said here* |  |  | France |  | under Louis XIV | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: in france=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | french *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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**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): no change. **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.

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