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title: The French flag is bleu, blanc, rouge ("BLUH, BLAHN, ROOZH"): blue,… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: The French flag is bleu, blanc, rouge ("BLUH, BLAHN, ROOZH"): blue, white, red, in that order from the flagpole. Who acts: French flag. 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 5

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The French flag is bleu, blanc, rouge ("BLUH, BLAHN, ROOZH"): blue, white, red, in that order from the flagpole.

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**Who acts:** French flag · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bleu, order

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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 (French flag), 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:5
# text = The French flag is bleu, blanc, rouge ("BLUH, BLAHN, ROOZH"): blue, white, red, in that order from the flagpole.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bleu	bleu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	blanc	blanc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	rouge	rouge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
12	BLUH	bluh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	BLAHN	BLAHN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ROOZH	ROOZH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flagpole	flagpole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the French flag | bleu and blanc and rouge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the French flag *not said here* |  |  | that order from the flagpole |  |  | 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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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