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title: Famous artists were real people with real lives, and knowing their s… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso… · tree and pragmatics
description: Famous artists were real people with real lives, and knowing their story often explains their pictures: what they could see, what hurt them, what they loved and what they were allowed to do. Who acts: Famous artists, knowing, artists. A sentence of the lesson «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo
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# Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 0

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Famous artists were real people with real lives, and knowing their story often explains their pictures: what they could see, what hurt them, what they loved and what they were allowed to do.

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**Who acts:** Famous artists, knowing, artists · **What happens:** be, know, explain, see, hurt, love · **To what, where:** real people, story, pictures, artists · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)» 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 (Famous artists, knowing, artists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:0
# text = Famous artists were real people with real lives, and knowing their story often explains their pictures: what they could see, what hurt them, what they loved and what they were allowed to do.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 016-famous-artists-simply.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
1	Famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	conj	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | Famous artists | real people |  |  |  | with real lives | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | gerund |  | artists's story |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | knowing | artists's pictures |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | could | artists *= artist* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | past |  | artists *= artist* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer what=Result |
| 6 | **love** | past | artists *= artist* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **allow** | past · passive |  | artists *= artist* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | artists *= artist* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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): R6-punct-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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