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title: Very high art prices come from fame, history, rarity and buyers comp… — Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and har… · tree and pragmatics
description: Very high art prices come from fame, history, rarity and buyers competing at auctions, not only from how hard a picture looks to make. Who acts: high art prices, buyers, picture. A sentence of the lesson «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» of the arts course of Mova's primary sc
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# Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work, sentence 17

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Very high art prices come from fame, history, rarity and buyers competing at auctions, not only from how hard a picture looks to make.

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**Who acts:** high art prices, buyers, picture · **What happens:** come, compete, not look, make · **To what, where:** fame, auctions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» 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 (high art prices, buyers, picture), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:039-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work.lesson:17
# text = Very high art prices come from fame, history, rarity and buyers competing at auctions, not only from how hard a picture looks to make.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 039-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
3	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rarity	rarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	buyers	buyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	competing	compete	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	auctions	auction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **come** | present | high art prices |  |  | fame and history and rarity and buyers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from fame=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **compete** | gerund | buyers *not said here* |  |  | auctions |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **look** | present | a picture |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | a picture *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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 ×1, 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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