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title: jaune ("ZHOHN") means yellow; it already ends in e, so it is the sam… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: jaune ("ZHOHN") means yellow; it already ends in e, so it is the same with un and une: un ballon jaune, une fleur jaune. Who acts: jaune, violet. 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 11

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jaune ("ZHOHN") means yellow; it already ends in e, so it is the same with un and une: un ballon jaune, une fleur jaune.

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**Who acts:** jaune, violet · **What happens:** mean, end, be · **To what, where:** yellow, e

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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 (jaune, violet), 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:11
# text = jaune ("ZHOHN") means yellow; it already ends in e, so it is the same with un and une: un ballon jaune, une fleur jaune.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	jaune	jaune	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
4	ZHOHN	ZHOHN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	already	already	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ballon	ballon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
28	jaune	jaune	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	dep	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	une	une	X	FW	_	31	compound	_	_
31	fleur	fleur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	jaune	jaune	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	dep	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## 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 | jaune | yellow |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yellow=Topic |
| 2 | **end** | present | violet |  |  | e |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | violet |  |  |  |  | with un and une; same *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

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