--- title: Colours also change their spelling to match the thing: a green jumpe… — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: Colours also change their spelling to match the thing: a green jumper is un pull vert, but a green skirt is une jupe verte, because jupe is a feminine word. Who acts: Colours, green jumper, green skirt, jupe. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / [Colours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/) / 1 # Colours, sentence 1 Colours also change their spelling to match the thing: a green jumper is un pull vert, but a green skirt is une jupe verte, because jupe is a feminine word. **Who acts:** Colours, green jumper, green skirt, jupe · **What happens:** change, match, be, spell · **To what, where:** spelling, thing, une jupe, feminine word This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the french 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 (Colours, green jumper, green skirt, jupe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:009-colours.lesson:1 # text = Colours also change their spelling to match the thing: a green jumper is un pull vert, but a green skirt is une jupe verte, because jupe is a feminine word. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 009-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): no change 1 Colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 jumper jumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 un un NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 flat:foreign _ _ 16 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 flat:foreign _ _ 17 vert vert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 skirt skirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 une une ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 jupe jupe NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 26 verte verte X FW Foreign=Yes 25 flat:foreign _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 jupe jupe NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Colours | colours's spelling | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient | | 2 | **match** | to-infinitive | Colours *not said here* | the thing | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | a green jumper | | | | | vert *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a green skirt | une jupe | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | jupe | a feminine word | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **spell** | | colours *= colour* | | | | | | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:009-colours.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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: [Colours, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/0/) - next →: [Colours, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/)