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description: Painters' primary colours are red, yellow and blue; the secondary colours green, orange and purple are made by mixing two of them, and mixing complementary colours gives a muddy brown or grey. Who acts: primary colours. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 5

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Painters' primary colours are red, yellow and blue; the secondary colours green, orange and purple are made by mixing two of them, and mixing complementary colours gives a muddy brown or grey.

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**Who acts:** primary colours · **What happens:** be, make, mix, give · **To what, where:** secondary colours, two, complementary colours, muddy brown

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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 (primary 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:5
# text = Painters' primary colours are red, yellow and blue; the secondary colours green, orange and purple are made by mixing two of them, and mixing complementary colours gives a muddy brown or grey.
# 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
1	Painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	secondary	secondary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mixing	mix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
30	complementary	complementary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	grey	grey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Painters's primary colours |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Painters's primary colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Painters's primary colours *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | present · passive |  | the secondary colours |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **mix** | gerund |  | two of colours |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |
| 6 | **mix** | gerund |  | complementary colours |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |
| 7 | **give** | present |  | a muddy brown or grey |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brown=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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**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. **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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