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title: The Nike "swoosh" was designed in 1971 by a design student, Carolyn… — Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nike "swoosh" was designed in 1971 by a design student, Carolyn Davidson, who was reportedly paid 35 dollars; the logo became valuable because of the brand built around it. Who acts: design student, logo. A sentence of the lesson «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» of the arts c
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# Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts, sentence 5

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The Nike "swoosh" was designed in 1971 by a design student, Carolyn Davidson, who was reportedly paid 35 dollars; the logo became valuable because of the brand built around it.

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**Who acts:** design student, logo · **What happens:** design, pay, become, build · **To what, where:** Nike swoosh, 1971, design student, brand, logo

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Design all around: logos, brands, packaging, fonts» 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 (design student, logo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:033-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts.lesson:5
# text = The Nike "swoosh" was designed in 1971 by a design student, Carolyn Davidson, who was reportedly paid 35 dollars; the logo became valuable because of the brand built around it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 033-design-all-around-logos-brands-packaging-fonts.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det
2	Nike	nike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	swoosh	swoosh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	1971	1971	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	design	design	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	student	student	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Carolyn	Carolyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	Davidson	Davidson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl:relcl
22	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	logo	logo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
28	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	around	around	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **design** | past · passive | a design student | the Nike swoosh |  | 1971 |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **pay** | past · passive |  | a design student |  |  |  | reportedly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient dollar=Asset |
| 3 | **become** | past | the logo |  |  |  |  | because the brand; valuable *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | the brand *not said here* |  | logo |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 ×4, 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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