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title: Pale yellow wee means you are drinking enough; dark yellow wee means… — Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals · tree and pragmatics
description: Pale yellow wee means you are drinking enough; dark yellow wee means you need more water. Who acts: Pale yellow wee, you, dark yellow wee. A sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals, sentence 8

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Pale yellow wee means you are drinking enough; dark yellow wee means you need more water.

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**Who acts:** Pale yellow wee, you, dark yellow wee · **What happens:** mean, drink, need · **To what, where:** more water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» of the everyday 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 (Pale yellow wee, you, dark yellow wee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:009-body-signals.lesson:8
# text = Pale yellow wee means you are drinking enough; dark yellow wee means you need more water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 009-body-signals.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	Pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **mean** | present | Pale yellow wee |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **drink** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | dark yellow wee |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **need** | present | you | more water |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |

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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:everyday:009-body-signals.lesson:8`.

**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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