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title: Complementary colours are opposite each other on the colour wheel, l… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Complementary colours are opposite each other on the colour wheel, like orange and blue or red and green; side by side they make each other look stronger. Who acts: Complementary colours, colours, each. A sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool» of the arts course of
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# Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 14

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Complementary colours are opposite each other on the colour wheel, like orange and blue or red and green; side by side they make each other look stronger.

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**Who acts:** Complementary colours, colours, each · **What happens:** be, make, look · **To what, where:** side

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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 (Complementary colours, colours, each), 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:14
# text = Complementary colours are opposite each other on the colour wheel, like orange and blue or red and green; side by side they make each other look stronger.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Complementary	complementary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	fixed	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nsubj	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	flat	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	xcomp	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Complementary colours |  |  |  |  | like orange; each other *obl*; opposite *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | colours *= colour* | side |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | each |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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**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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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