--- title: Picking crayons with Ming you hear a little «-sè» on the end of ever… — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: Picking crayons with Ming you hear a little «-sè» on the end of every colour: hóngsè, lánsè, huángsè. sè is the word for colour, just as yánsè is «colour» itself in «nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè?» (what colour do you like?). Who acts: you, sè, yánsè. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the chinese stree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Chinese street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/) / [Colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/) / 0 # Colours, sentence 0 Picking crayons with Ming you hear a little «-sè» on the end of every colour: hóngsè, lánsè, huángsè. sè is the word for colour, just as yánsè is «colour» itself in «nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè?» (what colour do you like?). **Who acts:** you, sè, yánsè · **What happens:** pick, hear, be, like · **To what, where:** crayons, little sè, word, colour, nǐ This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the chinese street 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 (you, sè, yánsè), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:008-colours.lesson:0 # text = Picking crayons with Ming you hear a little «-sè» on the end of every colour: hóngsè, lánsè, huángsè. sè is the word for colour, just as yánsè is «colour» itself in «nǐ xǐhuan shénme yánsè?» (what colour do you like?). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 008-colours.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 2 crayons crayon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ming Ming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:amod 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 sè sè NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hóngsè hóngsè NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 lánsè lánsè NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 huángsè huángsè NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 26 sè sè NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 35 yánsè yánsè NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obl 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 43 nǐ nǐ X GW ExtPos=PROPN 38 nmod _ _ 44 xǐhuan xǐhuan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 shénme shénme NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 yánsè yánsè X NN _ 43 flat _ _ 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 48 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 49 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 54 punct _ _ 50 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 51 det _ _ 51 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ _ 52 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 54 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 ? ? PUNCT . _ 54 punct _ _ 56 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 54 punct _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | gerund | you *not said here* | crayons | | | | with Ming | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crayon=Patient | | 2 | **hear** | present | you | little sè | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sè=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | sè | the word | | | | for colour | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | yánsè | colour | | nǐ | | yánsè *nmod* | tree rules | | 5 | **like** | present · do-support | you | what colour | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot colour=Theme | 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. **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:chinese-street:008-colours.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Counting to 100 and lucky numbers, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/7-counting-to-a-hundred-lucky-numbers/18/) - next →: [Colours, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/)