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title: Museums ask people not to touch art because oils and sweat from hand… — Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Museums ask people not to touch art because oils and sweat from hands damage paint over time; conservation means keeping art safe for the future. Who acts: Museums, oils, conservation. A sentence of the lesson «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» of the arts course of Mova's prima
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# Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there, sentence 5

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Museums ask people not to touch art because oils and sweat from hands damage paint over time; conservation means keeping art safe for the future.

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**Who acts:** Museums, oils, conservation · **What happens:** ask, not touch, damage, mean, keep · **To what, where:** people, art, paint · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Museums, oils, conservation), 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:5
# text = Museums ask people not to touch art because oils and sweat from hands damage paint over time; conservation means keeping art safe for the future.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	iobj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	oils	oil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
14	damage	damage	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
15	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	conservation	conservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	ccomp	_	_
22	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Museums |  | people |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **touch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Museums *not said here* | art |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme art=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **damage** | present | oils from hands and sweat | paint |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument paint=Patient |
| 4 | **mean** | present | conservation |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **keep** | gerund |  | art |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=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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**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, 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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