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description: Colour chains need two steps: first work out what a mix makes, then use the colour wheel, where opposite colours are complementary: red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple. Who acts: Colour chains, two steps, mix, opposite colours. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colou
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 1

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Colour chains need two steps: first work out what a mix makes, then use the colour wheel, where opposite colours are complementary: red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple.

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**Who acts:** Colour chains, two steps, mix, opposite colours · **What happens:** need, work out, make, use, be · **To what, where:** two steps, colour wheel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» 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 (Colour chains, two steps, mix, opposite colours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:1
# text = Colour chains need two steps: first work out what a mix makes, then use the colour wheel, where opposite colours are complementary: red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	complementary	complementary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	appos	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Colour chains | two steps |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot step=Theme |
| 2 | **work out** | infinitive | two steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | present | a mix |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |
| 4 | **use** | infinitive | two steps *not said here* | the colour wheel |  |  | then |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | opposite colours |  |  |  |  | complementary *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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**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:042-olympiad-picture-puzzles.lesson:1`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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