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title: Real light can be much brighter than any paint, so painters make a s… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Real light can be much brighter than any paint, so painters make a sky look bright by putting darker colours beside it; this difference is called contrast. Who acts: Real light, painters, sky. A sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts course of Mova's pr
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# Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 13

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Real light can be much brighter than any paint, so painters make a sky look bright by putting darker colours beside it; this difference is called contrast.

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**Who acts:** Real light, painters, sky · **What happens:** be, make, look, put, call · **To what, where:** sky, darker colours, light, difference · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Real light, painters, sky), 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:13
# text = Real light can be much brighter than any paint, so painters make a sky look bright by putting darker colours beside it; this difference is called contrast.
# 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	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
29	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | can | Real light |  |  |  |  | than any paint; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | painters | a sky |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | a sky *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | a sky *not said here* | darker colours |  | light |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent colour=Theme beside it=Destination |
| 5 | **call** | present · passive |  | this difference |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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): 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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