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title: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish painter of the 1500s, painted bu… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish painter of the 1500s, painted busy village scenes full of small stories, like a picture puzzle. Who acts: Flemish painter. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 13

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish painter of the 1500s, painted busy village scenes full of small stories, like a picture puzzle.

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**Who acts:** Flemish painter · **What happens:** paint · **To what, where:** busy village scenes

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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 (Flemish painter), 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:13
# text = Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish painter of the 1500s, painted busy village scenes full of small stories, like a picture puzzle.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Pieter	Pieter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Bruegel	Bruegel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Flemish	flemish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	1500s	1500	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
14	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **paint** | participle | a Flemish painter of the 1500s *not said here* | busy village scenes |  |  |  | like a picture puzzle | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent scene=Destination |

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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:13`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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

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