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title: Watch the sounds: lǜ (green) needs the new ü — say «ee» with lips ro… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch the sounds: lǜ (green) needs the new ü — say «ee» with lips rounded for «oo» — or it turns into lù (road). Who acts: you, 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.
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# Colours, sentence 4

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Watch the sounds: lǜ (green) needs the new ü — say «ee» with lips rounded for «oo» — or it turns into lù (road).

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**Who acts:** you, lǜ · **What happens:** watch, need, say, round, turn · **To what, where:** sounds, new ü, ee, lips, lù · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, 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:4
# text = Watch the sounds: lǜ (green) needs the new ü — say «ee» with lips rounded for «oo» — or it turns into lù (road).
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	lǜ	lǜ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ü	ü	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	oo	oo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	lù	lù	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sounds |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | lǜ | the new ü |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ü=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | ee and lips |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ee=Topic |
| 4 | **round** | participle |  | lips *not said here* |  |  |  | for oo | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **turn** | present | lǜ |  |  | lù |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lù=Trajectory |

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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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**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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