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title: A dye is a coloured substance whose molecules stick to fibres; berry… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics
description: A dye is a coloured substance whose molecules stick to fibres; berry stains are dyes from the fruit. Who acts: dye, molecules, berry stains. 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 claus
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# Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 8

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A dye is a coloured substance whose molecules stick to fibres; berry stains are dyes from the fruit.

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**Who acts:** dye, molecules, berry stains · **What happens:** be, stick · **To what, where:** coloured substance, dyes, fruit

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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 (dye, molecules, berry stains), 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:8
# text = A dye is a coloured substance whose molecules stick to fibres; berry stains are dyes from the fruit.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	molecules	molecule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fibres	fibre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	stains	stain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | a dye | a coloured substance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick** | present | molecules |  |  |  |  | to fibres | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to fibre=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | berry stains | dyes |  | the fruit |  |  | 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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**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): 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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