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title: Fame is not fair or quick: Van Gogh sold very few paintings while al… — Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fame is not fair or quick: Van Gogh sold very few paintings while alive, and for centuries women were often kept out of art schools, so historians are still finding forgotten artists; who liked whose art is often argued, but the dates and facts can be checked. Who acts: Fame, Van, historians, forgot
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# Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...), sentence 3

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Fame is not fair or quick: Van Gogh sold very few paintings while alive, and for centuries women were often kept out of art schools, so historians are still finding forgotten artists; who liked whose art is often argued, but the dates and facts can be checked.

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**Who acts:** Fame, Van, historians, forgotten artists · **What happens:** not be, be, sell, keep out, find, forget · **To what, where:** few paintings, women, art schools, forgotten artists, art, dates

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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 (Fame, Van, historians, forgotten 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:3
# text = Fame is not fair or quick: Van Gogh sold very few paintings while alive, and for centuries women were often kept out of art schools, so historians are still finding forgotten artists; who liked whose art is often argued, but the dates and facts can be checked.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=52:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
34	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	artists	artist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	often	often	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	ccomp	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=43:punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Fame |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Fame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** | past | Van | few paintings |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme |
| 4 | **keep out** | past · passive |  | women |  | art schools | century | often *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme school=Attribute |
| 5 | **find** | present · progressive | historians | forgotten artists |  |  | still |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=Topic |
| 6 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **like** | past | forgotten artists |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive |  | art |  |  |  | often *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 9 | **check** | can · passive |  | the dates and facts |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:016-famous-artists-simply.lesson:3`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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