--- title: Paint is made of pigments, coloured powders that do not dissolve, mi… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics description: Paint is made of pigments, coloured powders that do not dissolve, mixed with a binder that glues them to the surface; cave painters used coloured earth and charcoal. Who acts: coloured powders, binder, cave painters. 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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 (coloured powders, binder, cave painters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:14 # text = Paint is made of pigments, coloured powders that do not dissolve, mixed with a binder that glues them to the surface; cave painters used coloured earth and charcoal. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 027-dyes-inks-colouring.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 pigments pigment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 powders powder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 dissolve dissolve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 binder binder NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 glues glue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 painters painter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 coloured colour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 charcoal charcoal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Paint | | | | of pigments and coloured powders | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **not** **dissolve** | present · do-support | coloured powders | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **mix** | participle | | pigments and coloured powders *not said here* | | | | with a binder | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with binder=Co-Patient | | 4 | **glue** | present | a binder | powders *= powder* | | | | to the surface | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to surface=Co-Patient | | 5 | **use** | past | cave painters | coloured earth and charcoal | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=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:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:14`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dyes, inks and colouring, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/12/) - next →: [Dyes, inks and colouring, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/)