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title: Laid out in a circle, the colours make a colour wheel: reds, oranges… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Laid out in a circle, the colours make a colour wheel: reds, oranges and yellows are called warm, like fire, and blues, greens and purples cool, like ice; it is about mood, not real temperature, but it really changes how a picture feels. Who acts: colours, wheel, picture. A sentence of the lesson «C
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# Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 3

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Laid out in a circle, the colours make a colour wheel: reds, oranges and yellows are called warm, like fire, and blues, greens and purples cool, like ice; it is about mood, not real temperature, but it really changes how a picture feels.

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**Who acts:** colours, wheel, picture · **What happens:** lay out, make, call, be, change, feel · **To what, where:** circle, colour wheel, reds · **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 (colours, wheel, picture), 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:3
# text = Laid out in a circle, the colours make a colour wheel: reds, oranges and yellows are called warm, like fire, and blues, greens and purples cool, like ice; it is about mood, not real temperature, but it really changes how a picture feels.
# 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	Laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	reds	red	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	yellows	yellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blues	blue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	greens	green	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	purples	purple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	about	about	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	really	really	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
50	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	ccomp	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **lay out** | participle | the colours *not said here* |  |  | a circle |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in circle=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present | the colours | a colour wheel |  |  |  | like fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wheel=Product |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | reds and oranges and yellows |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | wheel |  |  |  |  | about mood and real temperature | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** | present | wheel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | present | a picture |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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**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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