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title: Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slo… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics
description: Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slowly, so painters could blend smoothly. Who acts: Oil paint, watercolour, painters. 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 
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# Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes, sentence 8

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Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slowly, so painters could blend smoothly.

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**Who acts:** Oil paint, watercolour, painters · **What happens:** be, mix, dry, blend · **To what, where:** pigment

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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 (Oil paint, watercolour, 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:8
# text = Oil paint is pigment mixed with oil, often linseed oil; it dries slowly, so painters could blend smoothly.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pigment	pigment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	linseed	linseed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
18	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	blend	blend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Oil paint | pigment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  | pigment *not said here* |  |  |  | with oil | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with oil=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **dry** | present | watercolour |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **blend** | could | painters |  |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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