--- title: A clear varnish protects an oil painting, but it yellows over time;… — Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mistakes · tree and pragmatics description: A clear varnish protects an oil painting, but it yellows over time; restorers, experts who carefully clean old art, can reveal bright colours under old varnish and dirt. Who acts: clear varnish, varnish, experts, restorers. 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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 (clear varnish, varnish, experts, restorers), 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:9 # text = A clear varnish protects an oil painting, but it yellows over time; restorers, experts who carefully clean old art, can reveal bright colours under old varnish and dirt. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 varnish varnish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 painting painting NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 yellows yellow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 restorers restorer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 reveal reveal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 varnish varnish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** | present | a clear varnish | a oil painting | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Beneficiary | | 2 | **yellow** | present | varnish | | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **clean** | present | experts | old art | | | | carefully *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent art=Patient | | 4 | **reveal** | can | restorers and experts | bright colours | | old varnish and dirt | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Topic | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/8/) - next →: [Painting: paints, brushes, mess and mi…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/14-painting-paints-brushes-mess-and-mistakes/)