--- title: Drawing is a skill learned by practice, like riding a bike: almost e… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics description: Drawing is a skill learned by practice, like riding a bike: almost every artist's early drawings look odd, and simple tricks help a lot. Who acts: early drawings, simple tricks, artist. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (early drawings, simple tricks, artist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:0 # text = Drawing is a skill learned by practice, like riding a bike: almost every artist's early drawings look odd, and simple tricks help a lot. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Drawing draw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 like like SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 almost almost ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 artist artist NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 drawings drawing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **learn** | participle | | a skill *not said here* | | | | by practice | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ride** | gerund | | a bike | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme | | 5 | **look** | present | every artist's early drawings | | | | | odd *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **help** | present | simple tricks | a lot | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Beneficiary | | 7 | **draw** | | every artist | | | | | | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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](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:arts:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:0`. **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, R7-rel-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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