Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 13
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down.
Who acts: Michelangelo · What happens: paint, stand, bend back, not lie down · To what, where: Chapel ceiling, scaffold, head
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» 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 (Michelangelo), 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 | Michelangelo | Michelangelo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ceiling | det |
| 4 | Sistine | Sistine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chapel | compound |
| 5 | Chapel | Chapel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ceiling | compound |
| 6 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 painted | obj |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 painted | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 scaffold | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scaffold | det |
| 10 | scaffold | scaffold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bending | cc |
| 12 | bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 standing | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bending | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bending | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lying | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 lying | advmod |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 standing | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 lying | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | Michelangelo | the Chapel ceiling | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ceiling=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Michelangelo not said here | a scaffold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on scaffold=Location | ||||
| 3 | bend back | gerund | Michelangelo not said here | Michelangelo's head | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | ||||
| 4 | not lie down | gerund | Michelangelo not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:13.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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