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title: Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist H… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style. Who acts: Van, influence, Japanese artist. A sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts course of Mova's primary 
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# Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 13

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Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.

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**Who acts:** Van, influence, Japanese artist · **What happens:** paint, learn, change, print · **To what, where:** own versions, style

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» 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 (Van, influence, Japanese artist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.lesson:13
# text = Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 035-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit.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): no change
1	Van	Van	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Gogh	Gogh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	prints	print	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	Hiroshige	Hiroshige	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **paint** | past | Van | Van's own versions of prints by the Japanese artist |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent version=Destination |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Van *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from prints *= print* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source |
| 3 | **change** | past | that influence | Van's style |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Patient |
| 4 | **print** |  | the Japanese artist |  |  |  |  |  | nom print «communication transitive»: by=agent |

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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): no change. **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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