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title: Edvard Munch, from Norway, made several versions of The Scream from… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics
description: Edvard Munch, from Norway, made several versions of The Scream from 1893; he said the figure hears a scream passing through nature and covers its ears. Who acts: Edvard, figure, scream. A sentence of the lesson «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» of the arts course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Famous paintings and the stories behind them, sentence 7

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Edvard Munch, from Norway, made several versions of The Scream from 1893; he said the figure hears a scream passing through nature and covers its ears.

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**Who acts:** Edvard, figure, scream · **What happens:** make, say, hear, pass, cover · **To what, where:** several versions, 1893, scream, nature, ears · **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 (Edvard, figure, scream), 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:7
# text = Edvard Munch, from Norway, made several versions of The Scream from 1893; he said the figure hears a scream passing through nature and covers its ears.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Edvard	Edvard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Munch	Munch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Scream	scream	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	1893	1893	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | past | Edvard from Norway | several versions of the Scream |  | 1893 |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent version=Product from 1893=Material |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Edvard |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | present | the figure | a scream |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scream=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | a scream *not said here* |  |  | nature |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through nature=Location |
| 5 | **cover** | present | the figure *not said here* | figure's ears |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=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:7`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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