--- title: Different paints behave differently: watercolour is thin and spreads… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Different paints behave differently: watercolour is thin and spreads in wet paper, acrylic is plastic-based and dries in minutes, and oil paint dries slowly so painters can blend it smoothly for days. Who acts: Different paints, watercolour, acrylic, oil paint. 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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 (Different paints, watercolour, acrylic, oil paint), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.lesson:0 # text = Different paints behave differently: watercolour is thin and spreads in wet paper, acrylic is plastic-based and dries in minutes, and oil paint dries slowly so painters can blend it smoothly for days. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.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 Different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 paints paint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 behave behave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 differently differently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 watercolour watercolour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 acrylic acrylic NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 based base VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 so so SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 painters painter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 blend blend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 smoothly smoothly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behave** | present | Different paints | | | | | differently *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | watercolour | | | | | thin *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **spread** | present | watercolour *not said here* | | | wet paper | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in paper=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | acrylic | | | | | base *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **dry** | present | acrylic *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **dry** | present | oil paint | | | | | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **blend** | can | painters | acrylic | | | day | smoothly *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, war…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/17/) - next →: [Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/)