--- title: The Beatles are one of the best-selling music acts in history, with… — Charts, number ones and famous musicians as publ… · tree and pragmatics description: The Beatles are one of the best-selling music acts in history, with sales estimated in the hundreds of millions; whether they were "the best" is an opinion. Who acts: Beatles. 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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 (Beatles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.lesson:6 # text = The Beatles are one of the best-selling music acts in history, with sales estimated in the hundreds of millions; whether they were "the best" is an opinion. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Beatles Beatles PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 9 selling sell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 10 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 sales sale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 compound _ _ 17 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 24 whether whether SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 29 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 csubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Beatles | one | | | | of the best selling music acts in history | tree rules | | 2 | **sell** | gerund | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **estimate** | participle | | | | the hundreds of millions | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Beatles | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | | a opinion | | | | | 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:006-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record.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): 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. 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