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title: One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics
description: One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry. Who acts: One coat, first. A sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint, sentence 13

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One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry.

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**Who acts:** One coat, first · **What happens:** look, paint on, be · **To what, where:** second coat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» of the adult life 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 (One coat, first), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:13
# text = One coat of paint often looks patchy, so a second coat is painted on once the first is dry.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 011-when-things-break.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	patchy	patchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | One coat of paint |  |  |  |  | often, patchy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **paint on** | present · passive |  | a second coat |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | the first |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:011-when-things-break.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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