--- title: Most experts say the Great Wave shows a huge storm wave out at sea,… — Famous paintings and the stories behind them · tree and pragmatics description: Most experts say the Great Wave shows a huge storm wave out at sea, not a tsunami; because it was printed, many cheap copies were sold. Who acts: Most experts, Great Wave. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Most experts, Great Wave), 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:9 # text = Most experts say the Great Wave shows a huge storm wave out at sea, not a tsunami; because it was printed, many cheap copies were sold. # 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 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 experts expert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Wave wave PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tsunami tsunami NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 printed print VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 copies copy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Most experts | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **show** | present | the Great Wave | a huge storm wave | | sea and a tsunami | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wave=Recipient | | 3 | **print** | past · passive | | Wave | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **sell** | past · passive | | many cheap copies | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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:9`. **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. 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