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title: Kateryna Bilokur was a self-taught Ukrainian folk painter of incredi… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Kateryna Bilokur was a self-taught Ukrainian folk painter of incredibly detailed flowers; it is reported that Picasso admired her work when he saw it in Paris in 1954. Who acts: Kateryna, Picasso. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts course of Mova's pr
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 11

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Kateryna Bilokur was a self-taught Ukrainian folk painter of incredibly detailed flowers; it is reported that Picasso admired her work when he saw it in Paris in 1954.

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**Who acts:** Kateryna, Picasso · **What happens:** teach, be, report, admire, see, work · **To what, where:** taught Ukrainian folk painter, painter, work, Paris

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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 (Kateryna, Picasso), 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:11
# text = Kateryna Bilokur was a self-taught Ukrainian folk painter of incredibly detailed flowers; it is reported that Picasso admired her work when he saw it in Paris in 1954.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Kateryna	Kateryna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Bilokur	Bilokur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
8	Ukrainian	ukrainian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	incredibly	incredibly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	Picasso	Picasso	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	admired	admire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	1954	1954	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Kateryna | a taught Ukrainian folk painter |  |  |  | of detailed flowers | tree rules |
| 3 | **report** | present · passive |  | painter |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **admire** | past | Picasso | Picasso's work |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | past | Kateryna | painter |  | Paris |  | in 1954 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **work** |  | Picasso |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): 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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