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title: Tyrian purple came from thousands of sea snails for a small amount o… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics
description: Tyrian purple came from thousands of sea snails for a small amount of dye, so it was so dear that it became the colour of emperors and kings. Who acts: Tyrian purple, purple. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 11

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Tyrian purple came from thousands of sea snails for a small amount of dye, so it was so dear that it became the colour of emperors and kings.

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**Who acts:** Tyrian purple, purple · **What happens:** come, be, become, amount · **To what, where:** thousands, colour, dye

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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 (Tyrian purple, purple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:11
# text = Tyrian purple came from thousands of sea snails for a small amount of dye, so it was so dear that it became the colour of emperors and kings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 027-dyes-inks-colouring.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Tyrian	tyrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	emperors	emperor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **come** | past | Tyrian purple |  |  | thousands of sea snails |  | for a small amount of dye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from thousand=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | purple |  |  |  |  | dear *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | purple | the colour of emperors and kings |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | dye |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:11`.

**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): 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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