--- title: hēisè («HAY-suh») is black; hēi also means dark (tiān hēi le = it's… — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: hēisè («HAY-suh») is black; hēi also means dark (tiān hēi le = it's got dark), and «hēi!» alone is a cheeky «hey!». Who acts: hēisè, hēi, lǜ. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the chinese street course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/12/) [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/) / 12 # Colours, sentence 12 hēisè («HAY-suh») is black; hēi also means dark (tiān hēi le = it's got dark), and «hēi!» alone is a cheeky «hey!». **Who acts:** hēisè, hēi, lǜ · **What happens:** be, mean, get · **To what, where:** dark 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 (hēisè, hēi, lǜ), 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:12 # text = hēisè («HAY-suh») is black; hēi also means dark (tiān hēi le = it's got dark), and «hēi!» alone is a cheeky «hey!». # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 hēisè hēisè PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 3 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 HAY hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 suh suh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 7 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 8 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 7 punct _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 hēi hēi X FW Foreign=Yes 14 nsubj _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 17 tiān tiān X FW Foreign=Yes 15 dep _ _ 18 hēi hēi X FW Foreign=Yes 17 flat _ _ 19 le le X FW Foreign=Yes 17 flat _ _ 20 = = SYM SYM _ 23 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 24 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 29 hēi hēi X FW Foreign=Yes 10 parataxis _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 32 alone alone ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:det 35 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis 36 « « PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 37 hey hey INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | hēisè | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | hēi | dark | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dark=Topic | | 3 | **get** | present · perfect | lǜ | | | | | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | alone, cheeky *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Colours, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/10/) - next →: [Colours, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/8-colours/)