Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 9

A clear varnish protects an oil painting, but it yellows over time; restorers, experts who carefully clean old art, can reveal bright colours under old varnish and dirt.

Who acts: clear varnish, varnish, experts, restorers · What happens: protect, yellow, clean, reveal · To what, where: oil painting, old art, bright colours, old varnish

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 (clear varnish, varnish, experts, restorers), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 varnish	det
2	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 varnish	amod
3	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 protects	nsubj
4	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 painting	det
6	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 painting	compound
7	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 protects	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 yellows	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 yellows	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 yellows	nsubj
11	yellows	yellow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 protects	conj
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 time	case
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yellows	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 restorers	punct
15	restorers	restorer	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reveal	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 experts	punct
17	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 restorers	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 clean	nsubj
19	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	20 clean	advmod
20	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 experts	acl:relcl
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 art	amod
22	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 clean	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reveal	punct
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 reveal	aux
25	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 protects	conj
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 colours	amod
27	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reveal	obj
28	under	under	ADP	_	30 varnish	case
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 varnish	amod
30	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reveal	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dirt	cc
32	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 varnish	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 protects	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present	a clear varnish	a oil painting				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Beneficiary
2	yellow	present	varnish			time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	clean	present	experts	old art			carefully property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent art=Patient
4	reveal	can	restorers and experts	bright colours	old varnish and dirt			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic

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:9.

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. 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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