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title: Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint; adding black makes a… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint; adding black makes a darker shade, and many painters darken with dark blue or brown instead so colours stay rich. Who acts: Adding, many painters, colours. 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 15

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Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint; adding black makes a darker shade, and many painters darken with dark blue or brown instead so colours stay rich.

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**Who acts:** Adding, many painters, colours · **What happens:** add, make, darken, stay · **To what, where:** white, lighter tint, black, darker shade · **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 (Adding, many painters, colours), 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:15
# text = Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint; adding black makes a darker shade, and many painters darken with dark blue or brown instead so colours stay rich.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	black	black	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	darken	darken	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
31	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | white |  |  |  | to a colour | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent white=Patient to colour=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Adding | a lighter tint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tint=Product |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Adding *not said here* | black |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | a darker shade |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shade=Product |
| 5 | **darken** | present | many painters |  |  |  |  | with dark blue | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blue=Instrument |
| 6 | **stay** | present | colours |  |  |  |  | instead, rich *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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, 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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