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title: kāfēisè («KAH-fay-suh», coffee colour) is brown; zōngsè is another w… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: kāfēisè («KAH-fay-suh», coffee colour) is brown; zōngsè is another word for brown. Who acts: kāfēisè, zōngsè. 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.
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# Colours, sentence 17

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kāfēisè («KAH-fay-suh», coffee colour) is brown; zōngsè is another word for brown.

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**Who acts:** kāfēisè, zōngsè · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** word

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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 (kāfēisè, zōngsè), 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:17
# text = kāfēisè («KAH-fay-suh», coffee colour) is brown; zōngsè is another word for brown.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	kāfēisè	kāfēisè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	_
4	KAH	KAH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	dep	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	fay	fay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	suh	suh	INTJ	UH	_	4	flat	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	zōngsè	zōngsè	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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** | present | kāfēisè |  |  |  |  | brown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | zōngsè | another word |  |  |  | for brown | 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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**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:17`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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