--- title: Drawing improves a lot with practice; teachers agree that people are… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics description: Drawing improves a lot with practice; teachers agree that people are not simply born able or unable to draw, and keeping old drawings shows how far you have come. Who acts: teachers, you. 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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 (teachers, you), 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:5 # text = Drawing improves a lot with practice; teachers agree that people are not simply born able or unable to draw, and keeping old drawings shows how far you have come. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 nsubj _ _ 2 improves improve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 simply simply ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 16 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 24 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 drawings drawing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 27 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 28 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **improve** | present | | a lot | | | | with practice | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lot=Patient with practice=Instrument | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | teachers | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **bear** | present · passive | | people | | | | able, simply *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **draw** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **keep** | gerund | teachers *not said here* | old drawings | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Theme | | 7 | **show** | present | | | | | | far *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **come** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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): 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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