--- title: Ancient Greek statues, for example, were painted in bright reds, blu… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics description: Ancient Greek statues, for example, were painted in bright reds, blues and golds; the paint wore off over two thousand years, and later people copied the bare white stone and thought that was the look. Who acts: paint, people, that. 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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 (paint, people, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:3 # text = Ancient Greek statues, for example, were painted in bright reds, blues and golds; the paint wore off over two thousand years, and later people copied the bare white stone and thought that was the look. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Greek Greek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 statues statue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 painted paint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 reds red NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 blues blue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 golds gold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 over over ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 compound _ _ 24 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 copied copy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 ccomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | past · passive | | Ancient Greek statues | | bright reds and blues and golds | | for example | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in red=Destination | | 2 | **wear off** | past | the paint | | | | year | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **copy** | participle | people | the bare white stone | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | that | the look | | | | | tree rules | 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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Ancient times and famous stories, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/2/) - next →: [Ancient times and famous stories, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/21-ancient-times-and-famous-stories/)