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title: Watercolour can sometimes be lifted with a tissue, and spills can be… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Watercolour can sometimes be lifted with a tissue, and spills can be turned into clouds or water. 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 clause.
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 7

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Watercolour can sometimes be lifted with a tissue, and spills can be turned into clouds or water.

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**What happens:** lift, turn · **To what, where:** Watercolour, spills, clouds

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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: 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:7
# text = Watercolour can sometimes be lifted with a tissue, and spills can be turned into clouds or water.
# 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	Watercolour	watercolour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	spills	spill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lift** | can · passive |  | Watercolour |  |  |  | with a tissue; sometimes *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | can · passive |  | spills |  | clouds or water |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into cloud=Trajectory |

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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:7`.

**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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