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title: Jeans are dyed with indigo, which sits mostly on the outside of the… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics
description: Jeans are dyed with indigo, which sits mostly on the outside of the threads, so each wash rubs a little off and the jeans fade. Who acts: indigo, wash, jeans. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 15

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Jeans are dyed with indigo, which sits mostly on the outside of the threads, so each wash rubs a little off and the jeans fade.

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**Who acts:** indigo, wash, jeans · **What happens:** dye, sit, rub off, fade · **To what, where:** Jeans, outside, little

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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 (indigo, wash, jeans), 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:15
# text = Jeans are dyed with indigo, which sits mostly on the outside of the threads, so each wash rubs a little off and the jeans fade.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Jeans	jeans	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dyed	dye	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	indigo	indigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	rubs	rub	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det
26	jeans	jeans	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **dye** | present · passive |  | Jeans |  |  |  | with indigo | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | present | indigo |  |  | the outside of the threads |  | mostly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on outside=Location |
| 3 | **rub off** | present | each wash | a little |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent little=Theme |
| 4 | **fade** | present | the jeans |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:15`.

**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 ×2. **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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