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title: Qi Baishi was a famous 20th-century Chinese painter of simple ink pa… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso… · tree and pragmatics
description: Qi Baishi was a famous 20th-century Chinese painter of simple ink paintings of shrimps, crabs, birds and flowers; he was a carpenter before becoming a painter, he became famous in his own lifetime, and today his paintings sell for millions. Who acts: Qi, paintings. A sentence of the lesson «Famous a
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# Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 10

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Qi Baishi was a famous 20th-century Chinese painter of simple ink paintings of shrimps, crabs, birds and flowers; he was a carpenter before becoming a painter, he became famous in his own lifetime, and today his paintings sell for millions.

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**Who acts:** Qi, paintings · **What happens:** be, become, sell · **To what, where:** famous century Chinese painter, carpenter, painter

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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 (Qi, paintings), 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:10
# text = Qi Baishi was a famous 20th-century Chinese painter of simple ink paintings of shrimps, crabs, birds and flowers; he was a carpenter before becoming a painter, he became famous in his own lifetime, and today his paintings sell for millions.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Qi	Qi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Baishi	Baishi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
28	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:acl
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	today	today	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | Qi | a famous century Chinese painter |  |  |  | of simple ink paintings of shrimps and crabs and birds and flowers | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Qi | a carpenter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | gerund | Qi *not said here* | a painter |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | past | Qi |  |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sell** | present | Qi's paintings |  |  |  |  | for millions; today *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for million=Asset |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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