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title: Small shakes are normal; artists draw lightly with many strokes from… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small shakes are normal; artists draw lightly with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow, then darken the line they like. Who acts: Small shakes, artists, shakes. A sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 17

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Small shakes are normal; artists draw lightly with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow, then darken the line they like.

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**Who acts:** Small shakes, artists, shakes · **What happens:** be, draw, darken, like · **To what, where:** line

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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 (Small shakes, artists, shakes), 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:17
# text = Small shakes are normal; artists draw lightly with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow, then darken the line they like.
# 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): no change
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	shakes	shake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	darken	darken	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Small shakes |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | present | artists |  |  |  |  | with many strokes from the shoulder and elbow; lightly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **darken** | infinitive |  | the line |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent line=Patient |
| 4 | **like** | present | shakes *= shake* | the line *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot line=Theme |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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