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title: Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffo… — Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down. Who acts: Michelangelo. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 13

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Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down.

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**Who acts:** Michelangelo · **What happens:** paint, stand, bend back, not lie down · **To what, where:** Chapel ceiling, scaffold, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» 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 (Michelangelo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:13
# text = Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Michelangelo	Michelangelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Sistine	Sistine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
5	Chapel	Chapel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	scaffold	scaffold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Michelangelo | the Chapel ceiling |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ceiling=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | Michelangelo *not said here* |  |  | a scaffold |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on scaffold=Location |
| 3 | **bend back** | gerund | Michelangelo *not said here* | Michelangelo's head |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
| 4 | **not** **lie down** | gerund | Michelangelo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:13`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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