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title: Fan art means drawing characters from shows, games or books you love… — Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, givi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fan art means drawing characters from shows, games or books you love; sharing it for fun and saying where the character comes from is usually accepted. Who acts: Fan art, you, character. A sentence of the lesson «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» of the arts course of Mova's
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# Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit, sentence 8

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Fan art means drawing characters from shows, games or books you love; sharing it for fun and saying where the character comes from is usually accepted.

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**Who acts:** Fan art, you, character · **What happens:** mean, draw, love, share, say, come · **To what, where:** characters, shows, character · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fan art, you, character), 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:8
# text = Fan art means drawing characters from shows, games or books you love; sharing it for fun and saying where the character comes from is usually accepted.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	ccomp	_	_
5	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:csubj:pass
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **mean** | present | Fan art |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund |  | characters |  | shows and games or books |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent character=Theme from show=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **love** | present | you | shows and games or books *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer show=Stimulus |
| 4 | **share** | gerund |  | character |  |  |  | for fun | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come** | present | the character |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **accept** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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