Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 0

Drawing is a skill learned by practice, like riding a bike: almost every artist's early drawings look odd, and simple tricks help a lot.

Who acts: early drawings, simple tricks, artist · What happens: draw, be, learn, ride, look, help · To what, where: skill, bike, lot

This is a sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» 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 (early drawings, simple tricks, artist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 skill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skill	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skill	det
4	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 skill	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 practice	case
7	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 riding	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 riding	mark
10	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 learned	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bike	det
12	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 riding	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 artist	advmod
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 artist	det
16	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drawings	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 artist	case
18	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 drawings	amod
19	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 look	nsubj
20	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skill	parataxis
21	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 look	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 help	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 help	cc
24	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tricks	amod
25	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 help	nsubj
26	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 look	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lot	det
28	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 help	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 skill	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	gerund				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		a skill		tree rules
3	learn	participle		a skill not said here	by practice	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ride	gerund		a bike		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme
5	look	present	every artist's early drawings		odd property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	help	present	simple tricks	a lot		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Beneficiary
7	draw		every artist			nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:0.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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