--- title: In China red is lucky and used at New Year and weddings; in many Wes… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics description: In China red is lucky and used at New Year and weddings; in many Western countries red can mean stop or danger, and white is worn at weddings. Who acts: China red, red. A sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, war…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/) / 12 # Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 12 In China red is lucky and used at New Year and weddings; in many Western countries red can mean stop or danger, and white is worn at weddings. **Who acts:** China red, red · **What happens:** be, use, mean, wear · **To what, where:** stop, white, weddings 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 (China red, red), 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:12 # text = In China red is lucky and used at New Year and weddings; in many Western countries red can mean stop or danger, and white is worn at weddings. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 weddings wedding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 18 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 21 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 weddings wedding NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | China red | | | | | lucky *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | participle | China red *not said here* | | | | at New Year and weddings | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | can | red | stop or danger | | | | in many Western countries | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot stop=Theme in country=Attribute | | 4 | **wear** | present · passive | | white | | weddings | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | 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:12`. **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, 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. 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