Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 17

Small shakes are normal; artists draw lightly with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow, then darken the line they like.

Who acts: Small shakes, artists, shakes · What happens: be, draw, darken, like · To what, where: line

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 (Small shakes, artists, shakes), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shakes	amod
2	shakes	shake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 normal	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 normal	cop
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 draw	punct
6	artists	artist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 draw	nsubj
7	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 normal	parataxis
8	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	7 draw	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 strokes	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 strokes	amod
11	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 draw	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 shoulder	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shoulder	det
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strokes	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 elbow	cc
16	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoulder	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 darken	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 darken	advmod
19	darken	darken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 draw	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 line	det
21	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 darken	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
23	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 line	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 normal	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Small shakes			normal property	tree rules
2	draw	present	artists			with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow; lightly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	darken	infinitive		the line	then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent line=Patient
4	like	present	shakes = shake	the line not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot line=Theme

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:17.

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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