--- title: Swapping the colours in un chat noir and une souris blanche gives un… — Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Swapping the colours in un chat noir and une souris blanche gives un chat blanc and une souris noire: each colour changes to match its noun. Who acts: Swapping, colour. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Swapping, colour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.lesson:15 # text = Swapping the colours in un chat noir and une souris blanche gives un chat blanc and une souris noire: each colour changes to match its noun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Swapping swap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 un un X FW Foreign=Yes 6 compound _ _ 6 chat chat X FW Foreign=Yes 7 compound _ _ 7 noir noir X FW Foreign=Yes 3 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 une une X FW Foreign=Yes 11 dep _ _ 10 souris souris X FW Foreign=Yes 11 compound _ _ 11 blanche blanche NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 un un X FW Foreign=Yes 14 compound _ _ 14 chat chat X FW Foreign=Yes 15 compound _ _ 15 blanc blanc X FW Foreign=Yes 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 une une X FW Foreign=Yes 19 dep _ _ 18 souris souris X FW Foreign=Yes 19 compound _ _ 19 noire noire X FW Foreign=Yes 15 conj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound 23 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:acl 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swap** | gerund | | the colours | | chat noir and souris blanche | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | Swapping | chat blanc | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanc=Theme | | 3 | **change** | present | each colour | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **match** | to-infinitive | each colour *not said here* | blanche's noun | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Patient | 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. **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:french:040-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers.lesson:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/14/) - next →: [Olympiad: mixed brain-teasers ★★★, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/)