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title: Colours opposite each other on the wheel, like orange and blue, make… — Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool · tree and pragmatics
description: Colours opposite each other on the wheel, like orange and blue, make each other shout; adding white makes a tint, adding black makes a shade, and shadows are rarely black but darker, cooler colours. Who acts: Colours, shadows. A sentence of the lesson «Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and coo
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# Colours: mixing, the colour wheel, warm and cool, sentence 4

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Colours opposite each other on the wheel, like orange and blue, make each other shout; adding white makes a tint, adding black makes a shade, and shadows are rarely black but darker, cooler colours.

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**Who acts:** Colours, shadows · **What happens:** make, shout, add, be · **To what, where:** white, tint, black, 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 (Colours, shadows), 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:4
# text = Colours opposite each other on the wheel, like orange and blue, make each other shout; adding white makes a tint, adding black makes a shade, and shadows are rarely black but darker, cooler colours.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
2	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj
21	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
26	black	black	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
27	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	parataxis	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **make** | infinitive | Colours |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | Colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Colours *not said here* | white |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | a tint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tint=Product |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Colours *not said here* | black |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | present |  | a shade |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shade=Product |
| 7 | **is** | present | shadows |  |  |  |  | black, rarely *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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