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title: Picture Hannah's watercolour sky bleeding into the sea: she panics,… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Hannah's watercolour sky bleeding into the sea: she panics, but that spreading is often the most beautiful bit, and many painters say "happy accidents" (a phrase made famous by the TV painter Bob Ross) give them ideas. Who acts: you, Hannah, spreading, many painters. A sentence of the lesson
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 2

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Picture Hannah's watercolour sky bleeding into the sea: she panics, but that spreading is often the most beautiful bit, and many painters say "happy accidents" (a phrase made famous by the TV painter Bob Ross) give them ideas.

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**Who acts:** you, Hannah, spreading, many painters, happy accidents · **What happens:** picture, bleed, panic, be, say, make · **To what, where:** watercolour sky, sea, beautiful bit, phrase, ideas, painters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Hannah, spreading, many 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:2
# text = Picture Hannah's watercolour sky bleeding into the sea: she panics, but that spreading is often the most beautiful bit, and many painters say "happy accidents" (a phrase made famous by the TV painter Bob Ross) give them ideas.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	watercolour	watercolour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	panics	panic	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	Bob	Bob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
42	Ross	Ross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
44	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Hannah's watercolour sky |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sky=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **bleed** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Location |
| 3 | **panic** | present | Hannah |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that spreading | the beautiful bit |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | many painters |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | participle |  | a phrase *not said here* |  |  |  | by the TV painter; famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **give** | infinitive | happy accidents | ideas | painters *= painter* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient idea=Theme |

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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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