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title: Paint stains clothes, so you wear an old shirt or apron, and you was… — Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles · tree and pragmatics
description: Paint stains clothes, so you wear an old shirt or apron, and you wash brushes straight away, before the paint dries hard. Who acts: Paint, you. 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 pragma
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# Crafts: scissors, glue, paint and needles, sentence 3

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Paint stains clothes, so you wear an old shirt or apron, and you wash brushes straight away, before the paint dries hard.

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**Who acts:** Paint, you · **What happens:** stain, wear, wash, dry · **To what, where:** clothes, old shirt, brushes

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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 (Paint, you), 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:3
# text = Paint stains clothes, so you wear an old shirt or apron, and you wash brushes straight away, before the paint dries hard.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stains	stain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
25	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
26	.	.	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 | **stain** | present | Paint | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent clothes=Destination |
| 2 | **wear** | present | you | a old shirt or apron |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | present | you | brushes |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Patient |
| 4 | **dry** | present | the paint |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:3`.

**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.

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

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