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title: Famous paintings are famous for more than looks: a theft, a war, a m… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Famous paintings are famous for more than looks: a theft, a war, a mystery or a brave choice of style can make a picture known all over the world. Who acts: Famous paintings, theft. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 0

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Famous paintings are famous for more than looks: a theft, a war, a mystery or a brave choice of style can make a picture known all over the world.

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**Who acts:** Famous paintings, theft · **What happens:** be, make, know · **To what, where:** picture, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» 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 (Famous paintings, theft), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:0
# text = Famous paintings are famous for more than looks: a theft, a war, a mystery or a brave choice of style can make a picture known all over the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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** | present | Famous paintings |  |  |  |  | more *obl*; famous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | can | a theft and a war and a mystery or a brave choice of style | a picture |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset picture=Product |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | a picture *not said here* |  | the world |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:015-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them.lesson:0`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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