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title: lánsè («LAHN?-suh») is blue; the blue of the sky can also be called… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: lánsè («LAHN?-suh») is blue; the blue of the sky can also be called qīng, a word for blue or green. 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 9

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lánsè («LAHN?-suh») is blue; the blue of the sky can also be called qīng, a word for blue or green.

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**What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** blue · **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: 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:9
# text = lánsè («LAHN?-suh») is blue; the blue of the sky can also be called qīng, a word for blue or green.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	lánsè	lánsè	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	LAHN	LAHN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
7	suh	suh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
9	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
22	qīng	qīng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | can · passive |  | the blue of the sky |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:9`.

**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, 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/).

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