--- title: Overworking means adding too much until the picture gets muddy; pain… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Overworking means adding too much until the picture gets muddy; painters step back and look from a distance. Who acts: picture, painters. 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 of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/) / 15 # Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 15 Overworking means adding too much until the picture gets muddy; painters step back and look from a distance. **Who acts:** picture, painters · **What happens:** overwork, mean, add, get, step back, look 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 (picture, 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:15 # text = Overworking means adding too much until the picture gets muddy; painters step back and look from a distance. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Overworking overwork VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 adding add VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 much much ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 until until SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 painters painter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 step step VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **overwork** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | gerund | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **get** | present | the picture | | | | | muddy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **step back** | present | painters | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **look** | present | painters *not said here* | | | | | from a distance | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from distance=Theme | 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:15`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/14/) - next →: [Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/)