--- title: With paint, a few colours can make hundreds: painters usually start… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics description: With paint, a few colours can make hundreds: painters usually start from three primary colours, red, yellow and blue, and mixing two gives the secondary colours, green, orange and purple. Who acts: few colours, painters, mixing. 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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 (few colours, painters, mixing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:arts:013-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool.lesson:0 # text = With paint, a few colours can make hundreds: painters usually start from three primary colours, red, yellow and blue, and mixing two gives the secondary colours, green, orange and purple. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = arts # lesson = 013-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 11 painters painter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 primary primary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 appos _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 mixing mixing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 28 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 secondary secondary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 33 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 appos _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | a few colours | hundreds | | | | with paint | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hundred=Product | | 2 | **start** | present | painters | | | three primary colours | | usually *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **mixing** | gerund | | two | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | present | mixing | the secondary colours | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme | 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:arts:013-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool.lesson:0`. **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): 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. 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