--- title: Watercolour is thin paint mixed with water; painting on wet paper so… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: Watercolour is thin paint mixed with water; painting on wet paper so colours spread is called wet-on-wet, and waiting for paint to dry stops the bleeding. Who acts: Watercolour, colours, waiting. 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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 (Watercolour, colours, waiting), 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:6 # text = Watercolour is thin paint mixed with water; painting on wet paper so colours spread is called wet-on-wet, and waiting for paint to dry stops the bleeding. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Watercolour watercolour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 5 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:csubj:pass|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obl 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 18 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 csubj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bleeding bleeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Watercolour | thin paint | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | thin paint *not said here* | | | | with water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with water=Co-Patient | | 3 | **spread** | present | colours | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | painting on wet paper | | | | wet *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **wait** | gerund | | | | | | for paint | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **dry** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **stop** | present | waiting | the bleeding | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bleeding=Eventuality | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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