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title: Paintings in public museums usually belong to the museum or the coun… — Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Paintings in public museums usually belong to the museum or the country and are not for sale; at auction, art can sell for hundreds of millions. Who acts: Paintings, art. A sentence of the lesson «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with
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# Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there, sentence 14

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Paintings in public museums usually belong to the museum or the country and are not for sale; at auction, art can sell for hundreds of millions.

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**Who acts:** Paintings, art · **What happens:** belong, not be, sell · **To what, where:** auction

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» 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 (Paintings, art), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:017-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there.lesson:14
# text = Paintings in public museums usually belong to the museum or the country and are not for sale; at auction, art can sell for hundreds of millions.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 017-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	auction	auction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **belong** | present | Paintings in public museums |  |  |  |  | to the museum or the country; usually *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | Paintings in public museums *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for sale | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** | can | art |  |  | auction |  | for hundreds of millions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at auction=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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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