--- title: Many artists mastered the rules before breaking them: Picasso could… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso… · tree and pragmatics description: Many artists mastered the rules before breaking them: Picasso could draw perfectly at 15 and later chose to break faces into shapes; Qi Baishi made a shrimp come alive with a few ink strokes after years of practice. Who acts: Many artists, Picasso, Qi, shrimp. A sentence of the lesson «Famous artist --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/) / 2 # Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 2 Many artists mastered the rules before breaking them: Picasso could draw perfectly at 15 and later chose to break faces into shapes; Qi Baishi made a shrimp come alive with a few ink strokes after years of practice. **Who acts:** Many artists, Picasso, Qi, shrimp · **What happens:** master, break, draw, choose, make, come · **To what, where:** rules, artists, 15, faces, shapes, shrimp 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 (Many artists, Picasso, Qi, shrimp), 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:2 # text = Many artists mastered the rules before breaking them: Picasso could draw perfectly at 15 and later chose to break faces into shapes; Qi Baishi made a shrimp come alive with a few ink strokes after years of practice. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 artists artist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mastered master VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Picasso Picasso PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 13 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 shapes shape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 Qi Qi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 Baishi Baishi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 flat _ _ 27 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 strokes stroke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 37 after after ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **master** | past | Many artists | the rules | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break** | gerund | Many artists *not said here* | artists *= artist* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | | 3 | **draw** | could | Picasso | | | 15 | | perfectly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **choose** | past | Picasso *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **break** | to-infinitive | Picasso *not said here* | faces | | | | into shapes *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent face=Patient into shape=Result | | 6 | **make** | past | Qi | a shrimp | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come** | infinitive | a shrimp *not said here* | | | | | with a few ink strokes after years of practice; alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:2`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/1/) - next →: [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/)