Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 0
Different paints behave differently: watercolour is thin and spreads in wet paper, acrylic is plastic-based and dries in minutes, and oil paint dries slowly so painters can blend it smoothly for days.
Who acts: Different paints, watercolour, acrylic, oil paint, painters · What happens: behave, be, spread, dry, blend · To what, where: wet paper, acrylic
This is a sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» 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 (Different paints, watercolour, acrylic, oil paint), 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 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 paints | amod |
| 2 | paints | paint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 behave | nsubj |
| 3 | behave | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 3 behave | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 thin | punct |
| 6 | watercolour | watercolour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thin | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thin | cop |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 behave | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spreads | cc |
| 10 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thin | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 paper | case |
| 12 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paper | amod |
| 13 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 based | punct |
| 15 | acrylic | acrylic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 based | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 based | cop |
| 17 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 based | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 plastic | punct |
| 19 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 behave | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dries | cc |
| 21 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 based | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 minutes | case |
| 23 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dries | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dries | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dries | cc |
| 26 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 paint | compound |
| 27 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dries | nsubj |
| 28 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 dries | conj |
| 29 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 28 dries | advmod |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 33 blend | mark |
| 31 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 blend | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 blend | aux |
| 33 | blend | blend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 dries | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 blend | obj |
| 35 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 33 blend | advmod |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 blend | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 behave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behave | present | Different paints | differently property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | watercolour | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spread | present | watercolour not said here | wet paper | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in paper=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | acrylic | base property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dry | present | acrylic not said here | minute | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dry | present | oil paint | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | blend | can | painters | acrylic | day | smoothly property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.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): 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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