--- title: Mixing too many colours, or painting wet on wet, turns paint brown o… — Being bad at something and keeping going · tree and pragmatics description: Mixing too many colours, or painting wet on wet, turns paint brown or grey, called muddy colour; using fewer colours and letting layers dry fixes it. Who acts: Mixing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mixing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:10 # text = Mixing too many colours, or painting wet on wet, turns paint brown or grey, called muddy colour; using fewer colours and letting layers dry fixes it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Mixing mix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 painting paint VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 8 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 advcl _ _ 19 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 22 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 nsubj _ _ 23 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ _ 24 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 26 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 27 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 fixes fix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mix** | gerund | | many colours | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 2 | **paint** | gerund | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | present | Mixing | paint | | | | brown *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent paint=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | | muddy colour | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **use** | gerund | | fewer colours | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | | 6 | **let** | gerund | | layers | | | | dry *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Theme | | 7 | **fix** | present | | paint | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:arts:037-being-bad-at-something-and-keeping-going.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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