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title: Big flat brushes suit skies and backgrounds; small round brushes wit… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Big flat brushes suit skies and backgrounds; small round brushes with a pointed tip suit details. Who acts: Big flat brushes, small round brushes. 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 prag
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 5

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Big flat brushes suit skies and backgrounds; small round brushes with a pointed tip suit details.

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**Who acts:** Big flat brushes, small round brushes · **What happens:** suit · **To what, where:** skies, details

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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 (Big flat brushes, small round brushes), 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:5
# text = Big flat brushes suit skies and backgrounds; small round brushes with a pointed tip suit details.
# 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	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	skies	sky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	backgrounds	background	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **suit** | present | Big flat brushes | skies and backgrounds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suit** | present | small round brushes with a pointed tip | details |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:5`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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