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title: Different brushes do different jobs: big flat ones for skies and bac… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Different brushes do different jobs: big flat ones for skies and backgrounds, small round ones for details, so painters usually start big and finish small. Who acts: Different brushes, painters. A sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» of the arts course of Mova's prim
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 1

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Different brushes do different jobs: big flat ones for skies and backgrounds, small round ones for details, so painters usually start big and finish small.

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**Who acts:** Different brushes, painters · **What happens:** do, start, finish · **To what, where:** different jobs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» 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 (Different brushes, painters), 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:1
# text = Different brushes do different jobs: big flat ones for skies and backgrounds, small round ones for details, so painters usually start big and finish small.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	jobs	job	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	backgrounds	background	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	finish	finish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
28	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Different brushes | different jobs |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 2 | **start** | present | painters |  |  |  |  | big, usually *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **finish** | present | painters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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