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title: That is why jeans go pale and why one red sock can turn a whole wash… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics
description: That is why jeans go pale and why one red sock can turn a whole wash pink. Who acts: jeans, one red sock. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 7

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That is why jeans go pale and why one red sock can turn a whole wash pink.

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**Who acts:** jeans, one red sock · **What happens:** go, turn · **To what, where:** whole wash

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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 (jeans, one red sock), 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:7
# text = That is why jeans go pale and why one red sock can turn a whole wash pink.
# 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): no change
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	cop	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	jeans	jeans	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sock	sock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | infinitive | jeans |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | can | one red sock | a whole wash |  |  |  | pink *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme wash=Result |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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