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title: For hair: brun / brune means dark-haired, blond / blonde means blond… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: For hair: brun / brune means dark-haired, blond / blonde means blond, roux / rousse means ginger; cheveux rouges would mean hair dyed bright red. Who acts: brune, blonde, roux, cheveux rouges. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Colours, sentence 12

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For hair: brun / brune means dark-haired, blond / blonde means blond, roux / rousse means ginger; cheveux rouges would mean hair dyed bright red.

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**Who acts:** brune, blonde, roux, cheveux rouges · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** dark haired, blond, ginger, hair

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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 (brune, blonde, roux, cheveux rouges), 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:12
# text = For hair: brun / brune means dark-haired, blond / blonde means blond, roux / rousse means ginger; cheveux rouges would mean hair dyed bright red.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	brun	brun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	brune	brune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	blond	blond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
13	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	blonde	blonde	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	blond	blond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
18	roux	roux	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	rousse	rousse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
22	ginger	ginger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	cheveux	cheveux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	rouges	rouge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	dyed	dyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	red	red	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | brune | dark haired |  |  |  | for hair and brun | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot haired=Theme for hair=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | blonde | blond |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blond=Topic |
| 3 | **mean** | present | roux and rousse | ginger |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ginger=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | would | cheveux rouges | hair |  |  |  |  | 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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**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:12`.

**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, R6-punct-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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