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title: Many paintings mix fact and legend, and some mysteries were later fi… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Many paintings mix fact and legend, and some mysteries were later filled in by novels and films; it is wise to ask why an artist chose a style or a subject before mocking it, and to know which parts of a story are made up. Who acts: Many paintings, novels, artist. A sentence of the lesson «Famous pa
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 3

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Many paintings mix fact and legend, and some mysteries were later filled in by novels and films; it is wise to ask why an artist chose a style or a subject before mocking it, and to know which parts of a story are made up.

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**Who acts:** Many paintings, novels, artist · **What happens:** mix, fill in, be, ask, choose, mock · **To what, where:** fact, mysteries, style, parts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many paintings, novels, artist), 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:3
# text = Many paintings mix fact and legend, and some mysteries were later filled in by novels and films; it is wise to ask why an artist chose a style or a subject before mocking it, and to know which parts of a story are made up.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	mysteries	mystery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	novels	novel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	expl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp
25	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=47:punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
41	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	42	det	_	_
42	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	ccomp	_	_
48	up	up	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=47:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **mix** | present | Many paintings | fact and legend |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient |
| 2 | **fill in** | past · passive | novels and films | some mysteries |  |  |  | late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **choose** | past | a artist | a style or a subject |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme |
| 6 | **mock** | gerund | a artist *not said here* | style |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **make up** | present · passive |  | which parts of a story |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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