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title: Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, studied the human body and… — Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation · tree and pragmatics
description: Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, studied the human body and drew ideas for flying machines in notebooks written in mirror writing, though most of his machines were never built and many would not have worked. Who acts: Leonardo, many. A sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and th
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# Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation, sentence 8

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Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, studied the human body and drew ideas for flying machines in notebooks written in mirror writing, though most of his machines were never built and many would not have worked.

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**Who acts:** Leonardo, many · **What happens:** paint, study, draw, fly, write, not build · **To what, where:** Mona Lisa, human body, ideas, notebooks, mirror writing, most

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Printing, the Renaissance and the Reformation» of the history 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 (Leonardo, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.lesson:8
# text = Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, studied the human body and drew ideas for flying machines in notebooks written in mirror writing, though most of his machines were never built and many would not have worked.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 025-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Leonardo	Leonardo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	da	da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Vinci	Vinci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Mona	Mona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
15	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	amod	_	_
18	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	notebooks	notebook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
21	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nsubj	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Leonardo | the Mona Lisa |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lisa=Theme |
| 2 | **study** | past | Leonardo *not said here* | the human body |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Leonardo *not said here* | ideas |  | notebooks |  | for flying machines | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent idea=Theme in notebook=Destination |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **write** | participle |  | notebooks *not said here* |  | mirror writing |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in writing=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **build** | past · passive |  | most of book's machines |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **not** **work** | would · perfect | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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.

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