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title: Ancient Greek and Roman statues were often painted in bright colours… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Ancient Greek and Roman statues were often painted in bright colours; scientists find traces of the paint with special lights and microscopes. Who acts: scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 9

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Ancient Greek and Roman statues were often painted in bright colours; scientists find traces of the paint with special lights and microscopes.

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**Who acts:** scientists · **What happens:** paint, find · **To what, where:** Ancient Greek statues, bright colours, traces

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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 (scientists), 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:9
# text = Ancient Greek and Roman statues were often painted in bright colours; scientists find traces of the paint with special lights and microscopes.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
15	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	microscopes	microscope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 · passive |  | Ancient Greek statues |  | bright colours |  | often *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in colour=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | present | scientists | traces of the paint |  |  |  | with special lights and microscopes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |

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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:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:9`.

**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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