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title: Some colours never change: those already ending in e, like rouge and… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: Some colours never change: those already ending in e, like rouge and jaune, keep the same form, and marron and orange, named after a chestnut and a fruit, never change at all. Who acts: colours, those, marron. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Colours, sentence 3

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Some colours never change: those already ending in e, like rouge and jaune, keep the same form, and marron and orange, named after a chestnut and a fruit, never change at all.

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**Who acts:** colours, those, marron · **What happens:** not change, end, keep, name · **To what, where:** e, same form, marron, all

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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 (colours, those, 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:3
# text = Some colours never change: those already ending in e, like rouge and jaune, keep the same form, and marron and orange, named after a chestnut and a fruit, never change at all.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	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:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	already	already	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	jaune	jaune	NOUN	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	marron	marron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | some colours |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | those |  |  | e |  | like rouge and jaune | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | some colours *not said here* | the same form |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  | marron and orange *not said here* |  |  | after a chestnut and a fruit |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **change** | infinitive | marron and orange |  |  | all |  |  | 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:3`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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