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title: Loose brushwork, holding the brush further from the bristles, often… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Loose brushwork, holding the brush further from the bristles, often makes paintings look more alive. Who acts: Loose brushwork, paintings. A sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 13

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Loose brushwork, holding the brush further from the bristles, often makes paintings look more alive.

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**Who acts:** Loose brushwork, paintings · **What happens:** hold, make, look · **To what, where:** brush, paintings

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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 (Loose brushwork, paintings), 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:13
# text = Loose brushwork, holding the brush further from the bristles, often makes paintings look more alive.
# 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
1	Loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brushwork	brushwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	further	further	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bristles	bristle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	xcomp	_	_
16	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
17	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **hold** | gerund | Loose brushwork *not said here* | the brush |  |  |  | further *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Loose brushwork | paintings |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | paintings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:014-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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