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title: Paintbrushes are washed straight after painting, because dry paint g… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles · tree and pragmatics
description: Paintbrushes are washed straight after painting, because dry paint goes hard and ruins them. Who acts: dry paint. A sentence of the lesson «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles, sentence 10

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Paintbrushes are washed straight after painting, because dry paint goes hard and ruins them.

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**Who acts:** dry paint · **What happens:** wash, go, ruin · **To what, where:** Paintbrushes

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles» of the everyday 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 (dry paint), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.lesson:10
# text = Paintbrushes are washed straight after painting, because dry paint goes hard and ruins them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.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 ×2
1	Paintbrushes	paintbrush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
6	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ruins	ruin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **wash** | present · passive |  | Paintbrushes |  |  | after painting | straight *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | present | dry paint |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ruin** | present | dry paint *not said here* | Paintbrushes *= paintbrush* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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:everyday:245-crafts-scissors-glue-and-paint.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): 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.

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

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