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title: Scientists find traces of paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues w… — Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists find traces of paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues with special lights and microscopes. Who acts: Scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★, sentence 13

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Scientists find traces of paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues with special lights and microscopes.

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**Who acts:** Scientists · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** traces, ancient Greek statues

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: how could you check it? ★★★» 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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:13
# text = Scientists find traces of paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues with special lights and microscopes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.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): no change
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Roman	Roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	microscopes	microscope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **find** | present | Scientists | traces of paint |  | ancient Greek statues 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:037-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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