--- title: gris ("GREE") means grey, not green; the s is silent; with a feminin… — Colours · tree and pragmatics description: gris ("GREE") means grey, not green; the s is silent; with a feminine noun it is grise ("GREEZ"); green is vert. Who acts: gris, s, green. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/14/) [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/) / 14 # Colours, sentence 14 gris ("GREE") means grey, not green; the s is silent; with a feminine noun it is grise ("GREEZ"); green is vert. **Who acts:** gris, s, green · **What happens:** mean, be · **To what, where:** grey, grise 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 (gris, s, green), 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:14 # text = gris ("GREE") means grey, not green; the s is silent; with a feminine noun it is grise ("GREEZ"); green is vert. # 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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 gris gris NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 GREE GREE 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 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 s s NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 feminine feminine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 grise grise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 GREEZ GREEZ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:appos 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 31 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 vert vert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | gris | grey | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grey=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | the s | | | | | silent *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | s | grise | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | green | | | | | with a feminine noun and grise; vert *property* | tree rules | 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:14`. **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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/13/) - next →: [Colours, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/)