Being bad at something and keeping going, sentence 10

Mixing too many colours, or painting wet on wet, turns paint brown or grey, called muddy colour; using fewer colours and letting layers dry fixes it.

Who acts: Mixing · What happens: mix, paint, turn, call, use, let · To what, where: many colours, paint, muddy colour, fewer colours, layers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Being bad at something and keeping going» 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 (Mixing), 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	Mixing	mix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 turns	csubj
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 colours	amod
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mixing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 painting	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 painting	cc
7	painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Mixing	conj
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 painting	amod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 wet	case
10	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wet	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 paint	punct
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obj
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 turns	xcomp
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 grey	cc
16	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brown	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Mixing	advcl
19	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 colour	amod
20	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Mixing	punct
22	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 fixes	nsubj
23	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 colours	amod
24	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 using	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 letting	cc
26	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 using	conj
27	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 letting	obj
28	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 letting	xcomp
29	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Mixing	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fixes	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mixing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mix	gerund		many colours		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
2	paint	gerund				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	present	Mixing	paint	brown property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paint=Theme
4	call	participle		muddy colour		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	use	gerund		fewer colours		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
6	let	gerund		layers	dry property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme
7	fix	present		paint		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: 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:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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