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title: Cracks are common in pottery; the Japanese art of kintsugi even repa… — Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the bi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cracks are common in pottery; the Japanese art of kintsugi even repairs broken pots with gold so the cracks become part of the beauty. Who acts: Cracks, Japanese art. 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 wi
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# Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz, sentence 15

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Cracks are common in pottery; the Japanese art of kintsugi even repairs broken pots with gold so the cracks become part of the beauty.

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**Who acts:** Cracks, Japanese art · **What happens:** be, repair, break, become · **To what, where:** pottery, broken pots, part

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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 (Cracks, Japanese art), 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:15
# text = Cracks are common in pottery; the Japanese art of kintsugi even repairs broken pots with gold so the cracks become part of the beauty.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	kintsugi	kintsugi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:FW:_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	repairs	repair	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Cracks |  |  | pottery |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **repair** | present | the Japanese art of kintsugi | broken pots |  |  |  | with gold | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient with gold=Instrument |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | present | the cracks | part of the beauty |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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