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title: The biggest trick is to draw what you SEE, not what you THINK things… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics
description: The biggest trick is to draw what you SEE, not what you THINK things look like: your brain has ready-made symbols, like a lollipop tree, but a real tree has messy branches, gaps and many greens. Who acts: biggest trick, you, things, brain. A sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing
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# Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 1

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The biggest trick is to draw what you SEE, not what you THINK things look like: your brain has ready-made symbols, like a lollipop tree, but a real tree has messy branches, gaps and many greens.

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**Who acts:** biggest trick, you, things, brain, real tree · **What happens:** be, see, think, look, have, make · **To what, where:** ready made symbols, messy branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» 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 (biggest trick, you, things, brain), 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:1
# text = The biggest trick is to draw what you SEE, not what you THINK things look like: your brain has ready-made symbols, like a lollipop tree, but a real tree has messy branches, gaps and many greens.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	SEE	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	THINK	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
17	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
37	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=38:cc
42	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	.	.	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 | **is** | present | the biggest trick |  |  |  |  | draw *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | present | things |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | your brain | ready made symbols |  |  |  | like a lollipop tree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent symbol=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **have** | present | a real tree | messy branches and gaps and many greens |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |

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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:arts:012-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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

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