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title: Every kind of metal gives back its own colour: strontium red, barium… — Colours of fire: fireworks · tree and pragmatics
description: Every kind of metal gives back its own colour: strontium red, barium green, sodium yellow, copper blue. Who acts: kind, copper. A sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Colours of fire: fireworks, sentence 3

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Every kind of metal gives back its own colour: strontium red, barium green, sodium yellow, copper blue.

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**Who acts:** kind, copper · **What happens:** give back, blue · **To what, where:** own colour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours of fire: fireworks» of the chemistry 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 (kind, copper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:3
# text = Every kind of metal gives back its own colour: strontium red, barium green, sodium yellow, copper blue.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	strontium	strontium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
12	red	red	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	barium	barium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	sodium	sodium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound
21	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **give back** | present | every kind of metal  strontium  barium green | metal's own colour |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
| 2 | **blue** |  | copper |  |  |  |  |  | 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:chemistry:026-colours-of-fire-fireworks.lesson:3`.

**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, 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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