--- title: lǜsè («lü-suh», lips rounded as for «oo» while saying «ee») is green… — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: lǜsè («lü-suh», lips rounded as for «oo» while saying «ee») is green; lǜ is not lù (road), and a green hat is a joke about being made a fool of. Who acts: lips, lǜsè, lǜ, green hat. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/10/) [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/) / 10 # Colours, sentence 10 lǜsè («lü-suh», lips rounded as for «oo» while saying «ee») is green; lǜ is not lù (road), and a green hat is a joke about being made a fool of. **Who acts:** lips, lǜsè, lǜ, green hat, joke · **What happens:** round, say, be, not be, make · **To what, where:** lǜsè, ee, joke, fool · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (lips, lǜsè, lǜ, green hat), 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:10 # text = lǜsè («lü-suh», lips rounded as for «oo» while saying «ee») is green; lǜ is not lù (road), and a green hat is a joke about being made a fool of. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 lǜsè lǜsè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 lü lü NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 6 suh suh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rounded round VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 oo oo ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 lǜ lǜ NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 lù lù ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 30 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 40 about about SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:advcl 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:obj 45 of of ADP IN _ 44 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **round** | participle | lips | lǜsè *not said here* | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lǜsè=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | lips *not said here* | ee | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ee=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | lǜsè | | | | | green *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | lǜ | | | | | lù *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | a green hat | a joke | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | gerund · passive | a joke *not said here* | a fool | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | 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:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Colours, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/9/) - next →: [Colours, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/)