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title: Picture Ling drawing a horse whose legs look wrong: she checks a pho… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Ling drawing a horse whose legs look wrong: she checks a photo and sees that the joint that bends "backwards" is really the horse's ankle, because horses walk on tiptoe. Who acts: Picture Ling, legs, horse, joint. A sentence of the lesson «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really s
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# Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 3

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Picture Ling drawing a horse whose legs look wrong: she checks a photo and sees that the joint that bends "backwards" is really the horse's ankle, because horses walk on tiptoe.

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**Who acts:** Picture Ling, legs, horse, joint, horses · **What happens:** draw, look, check, see, bend, be · **To what, where:** horse, photo, ankle, tiptoe · **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 (Picture Ling, legs, horse, joint), 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:3
# text = Picture Ling drawing a horse whose legs look wrong: she checks a photo and sees that the joint that bends "backwards" is really the horse's ankle, because horses walk on tiptoe.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Ling	ling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	joint	joint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	backwards	backward	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
26	really	really	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
28	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund | Picture Ling *not said here* | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | legs |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **check** | present | horse | a photo |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present | horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **bend** | present | the joint |  |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | the joint | the horse's ankle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **walk** | present | horses |  |  | tiptoe |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tiptoe=Trajectory |

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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:3`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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