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title: Many people say modern K-pop began in 1992 with Seo Taiji and Boys;… — Charts, number ones and famous musicians as publ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many people say modern K-pop began in 1992 with Seo Taiji and Boys; BTS became the first K-pop act to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Dynamite" in 2020. Who acts: Many people, modern K pop, BTS. A sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» of 
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# Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record, sentence 9

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Many people say modern K-pop began in 1992 with Seo Taiji and Boys; BTS became the first K-pop act to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Dynamite" in 2020.

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**Who acts:** Many people, modern K pop, BTS · **What happens:** say, begin, become, reach · **To what, where:** 1992, first pop act, number, Billboard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» 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 (Many people, modern K pop, BTS), 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:9
# text = Many people say modern K-pop began in 1992 with Seo Taiji and Boys; BTS became the first K-pop act to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Dynamite" in 2020.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	K	K	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1992	1992	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Seo	Seo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	Taiji	Taiji	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Boys	boy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	BTS	BTS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
21	K	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Billboard	billboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nmod	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Dynamite	dynamite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | past | modern K pop |  |  | 1992 |  | with Seo and Boys | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with seo=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **become** | past | BTS | the first pop act |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **reach** | to-infinitive | BTS *not said here* | number |  | the Billboard  Hot 100 |  | with Dynamite; in 2020 | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent number=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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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