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title: Each paint soaks up part of the light, so mixing too many paints tog… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Each paint soaks up part of the light, so mixing too many paints together soaks up almost everything and gives mud; picture Mia stirring her whole palette and getting puddle-water brown. Who acts: paint, mixing, Mia. A sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the 
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# Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 1

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Each paint soaks up part of the light, so mixing too many paints together soaks up almost everything and gives mud; picture Mia stirring her whole palette and getting puddle-water brown.

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**Who acts:** paint, mixing, Mia · **What happens:** soak up, mix, give, picture, stir, get · **To what, where:** part, many paints, everything, mud, whole palette, water brown

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts 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 (paint, mixing, Mia), 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:1
# text = Each paint soaks up part of the light, so mixing too many paints together soaks up almost everything and gives mud; picture Mia stirring her whole palette and getting puddle-water brown.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
5	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	paints	paint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	soaks	soak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	xcomp	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	palette	palette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
32	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16: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 | **soak up** | present | each paint | part of the light |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent part=Source |
| 2 | **mix** | gerund |  | many paints |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient |
| 3 | **soak up** | present | mixing | everything |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | mixing *not said here* | mud |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme |
| 5 | **picture** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **stir** | gerund | Mia | paint's whole palette |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus palette=Experiencer |
| 7 | **get** | gerund | Mia *not said here* | water brown |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brown=Stimulus |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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