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title: Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so ar… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons. Who acts: Acrylic, artists. 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 every c
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 16

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Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons.

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**Who acts:** Acrylic, artists · **What happens:** become, not wash out, wear · **To what, where:** plastic, old clothes

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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 (Acrylic, artists), 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:16
# text = Acrylic becomes plastic when dry and does not wash out easily, so artists wear old clothes or aprons.
# 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	Acrylic	acrylic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	aprons	apron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **become** | present | Acrylic | plastic |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **wash out** | present · do-support | Acrylic *not said here* |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wear** | present | artists | old clothes or aprons |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |

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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. **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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