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title: A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like th… — Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you real… · tree and pragmatics
description: A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like the photo Ling checked for her horse. Who acts: reference, you, Ling. 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 dependency tree and the pragm
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# Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see, sentence 7

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A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like the photo Ling checked for her horse.

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**Who acts:** reference, you, Ling · **What happens:** be, look, draw, check · **To what, where:** photo

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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 (reference, you, Ling), 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:7
# text = A reference is a photo or object you look at while you draw, like the photo Ling checked for her horse.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	Ling	Ling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a reference | a photo or object |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | you | a photo or object *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme photo=Attribute |
| 3 | **draw** | present | you |  |  |  |  | like the photo | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **check** | past | Ling | the photo *not said here* |  |  |  | for Ling's horse | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent photo=Theme for horse=Attribute |

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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:7`.

**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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