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title: Artists start with light, simple shapes, circles, ovals and boxes, t… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics
description: Artists start with light, simple shapes, circles, ovals and boxes, then add details on top; they show distance by making far things smaller (perspective) and show roundness by shading the side away from the light. Who acts: Artists, tricks. A sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawin
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# Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 2

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Artists start with light, simple shapes, circles, ovals and boxes, then add details on top; they show distance by making far things smaller (perspective) and show roundness by shading the side away from the light.

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**Who acts:** Artists, tricks · **What happens:** start, add, show, make, shade · **To what, where:** details, top, distance, things, roundness, side

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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 (Artists, tricks), 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:2
# text = Artists start with light, simple shapes, circles, ovals and boxes, then add details on top; they show distance by making far things smaller (perspective) and show roundness by shading the side away from the light.
# 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	Artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ovals	oval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	advcl	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	xcomp	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
34	roundness	roundness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	shading	shade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **start** | present | Artists |  |  |  |  | with light | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with light=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Artists *not said here* | details |  | top | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient |
| 3 | **show** | present | tricks *= trick* | distance |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent distance=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | tricks *= trick* *not said here* | things |  |  |  | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 5 | **show** | infinitive | tricks *= trick* *not said here* | roundness |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent roundness=Recipient |
| 6 | **shade** | gerund | tricks *= trick* *not said here* | the side |  |  |  | away *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Beneficiary |

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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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**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.

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