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title: Even writing someone's name in red ink is avoided, because it was on… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: Even writing someone's name in red ink is avoided, because it was once used for the names of the dead. Who acts: writing, someone. 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 3

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Even writing someone's name in red ink is avoided, because it was once used for the names of the dead.

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**Who acts:** writing, someone · **What happens:** write, avoid, use, name · **To what, where:** name, red ink

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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 (writing, someone), 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:3
# text = Even writing someone's name in red ink is avoided, because it was once used for the names of the dead.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj:pass	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **write** | gerund |  | someone's name |  | red ink |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in ink=Destination |
| 2 | **avoid** | present · passive | writing |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive |  | name |  |  |  | for the names of the dead; once *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for name=Eventuality |
| 4 | **name** |  | someone |  |  | red ink |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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:3`.

**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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