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title: Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black make… — Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and my… · tree and pragmatics
description: Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black makes a darker shade. Who acts: Adding. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: picture puzzles, colours, dates and myths ★★★, sentence 6

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Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black makes a darker shade.

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**Who acts:** Adding · **What happens:** add, make · **To what, where:** white, lighter tint, black, darker shade

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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 (Adding), 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:6
# text = Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black makes a darker shade.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×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	fixed	_	_
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	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
13	black	black	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | white |  |  |  | a colour *obl* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=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 |  | black |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent black=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | present | adding | a darker shade |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shade=Product |

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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:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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