Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 15
Overworking means adding too much until the picture gets muddy; painters step back and look from a distance.
Who acts: picture, painters · What happens: overwork, mean, add, get, step back, look
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 (picture, painters), 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 | Overworking | overwork | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 adding | advmod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 gets | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 picture | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | nsubj |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 adding | advcl |
| 10 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gets | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
| 12 | painters | painter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 step | nsubj |
| 13 | step | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 step | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 step | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overwork | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | add speech: assert not said to happen | gerund | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | get | present | the picture | muddy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | step back | present | painters | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look | present | painters not said here | from a distance | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from distance=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:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.lesson:15.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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