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title: Shadows usually have colour in them, and outdoor shadows, such as on… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Shadows usually have colour in them, and outdoor shadows, such as on snow, often look blue or purple; the French Impressionists of the 1870s became famous for painting blue and purple shadows. Who acts: Shadows, outdoor shadows, French Impressionists. A sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the c
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# Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 11

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Shadows usually have colour in them, and outdoor shadows, such as on snow, often look blue or purple; the French Impressionists of the 1870s became famous for painting blue and purple shadows.

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**Who acts:** Shadows, outdoor shadows, French Impressionists · **What happens:** have, look, become, paint · **To what, where:** colour, blue shadows

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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 (Shadows, outdoor shadows, French Impressionists), 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:11
# text = Shadows usually have colour in them, and outdoor shadows, such as on snow, often look blue or purple; the French Impressionists of the 1870s became famous for painting blue and purple shadows.
# 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
1	Shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Impressionists	impressionist	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	1870s	1870	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	25	nmod	_	_
29	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	painting	paint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Shadows | colour |  |  |  | in colours *= colour*; usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | outdoor shadows |  |  |  |  | blue, often *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | past | the French Impressionists of the 1870s |  |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **paint** | gerund | the French Impressionists of the 1870s *not said here* | blue shadows |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shadow=Destination |

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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. **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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