--- title: The other half of painting is knowing when to stop, asking before yo… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: The other half of painting is knowing when to stop, asking before you paint on walls, and dressing for mess, because dried acrylic will not wash out of your school jumper. Who acts: other half, you, dried acrylic. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other half, you, dried acrylic), 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:3 # text = The other half of painting is knowing when to stop, asking before you paint on walls, and dressing for mess, because dried acrylic will not wash out of your school jumper. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 13 before before SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 paint paint VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 dressing dress VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 acrylic acrylic NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 30 out out ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 jumper jumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · progressive | the other half of painting | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | the other half of painting *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **paint** | present | you | | | walls | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination | | 5 | **dress** | gerund | the other half of painting *not said here* | | | | | for mess | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **not** **wash out** | future | dried acrylic | | | | | of your school jumper; out *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. 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