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title: Pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs decorated with wax and dye, with p… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs decorated with wax and dye, with patterns that carry meanings like the sun, wheat or waves; there is a pysanka museum in Kolomyia shaped like a giant egg. Who acts: Pysanky, patterns, pysanka museum. A sentence of the lesson «Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mist
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 14

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Pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs decorated with wax and dye, with patterns that carry meanings like the sun, wheat or waves; there is a pysanka museum in Kolomyia shaped like a giant egg.

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**Who acts:** Pysanky, patterns, pysanka museum · **What happens:** be, decorate, carry, shape · **To what, where:** Ukrainian Easter eggs, meanings, pysanka museum

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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 (Pysanky, patterns, pysanka museum), 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:14
# text = Pysanky are Ukrainian Easter eggs decorated with wax and dye, with patterns that carry meanings like the sun, wheat or waves; there is a pysanka museum in Kolomyia shaped like a giant egg.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pysanky	Pysanky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
4	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	meanings	meaning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	pysanka	pysanka	X	FW	_	29	compound	_	_
29	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Kolomyia	Kolomyia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Pysanky | Ukrainian Easter eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **decorate** | participle |  | Ukrainian Easter eggs *not said here* |  |  |  | with wax and dye | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wax=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | present | patterns | meanings |  |  |  | like the sun and wheat or waves | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | a pysanka museum in Kolomyia |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shape** | participle |  | a pysanka museum in Kolomyia *not said here* |  |  |  | like a giant egg | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×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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