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title: marron (brown) and orange never change, not even in the plural: des… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: marron (brown) and orange never change, not even in the plural: des chaussures marron (brown shoes). Who acts: marron. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Colours, sentence 10

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marron (brown) and orange never change, not even in the plural: des chaussures marron (brown shoes).

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**Who acts:** marron · **What happens:** not change · **To what, where:** plural

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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 (marron), 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:10
# text = marron (brown) and orange never change, not even in the plural: des chaussures marron (brown shoes).
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	marron	marron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	des	des	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chaussures	chaussure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	marron	marron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
20	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **change** | present | marron and orange |  |  | the plural |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:french:009-colours.lesson:10`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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