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title: With a feminine noun most colours add -e: vert becomes verte, and th… — Colours · tree and pragmatics
description: With a feminine noun most colours add -e: vert becomes verte, and then the t is said: un pull vert ("VAIR"), une jupe verte ("VAIRT"). Who acts: most colours, e, un pull. A sentence of the lesson «Colours» of the french course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Colours, sentence 7

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With a feminine noun most colours add -e: vert becomes verte, and then the t is said: un pull vert ("VAIR"), une jupe verte ("VAIRT").

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**Who acts:** most colours, e, un pull · **What happens:** add, vert, become, say · **To what, where:** e, t, une jupe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (most colours, e, un pull), 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:7
# text = With a feminine noun most colours add -e: vert becomes verte, and then the t is said: un pull vert ("VAIR"), une jupe verte ("VAIRT").
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
9	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	vert	vert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
13	verte	verte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	flat	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	un	un	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	vert	vert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
27	VAIR	vair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	une	une	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	jupe	jupe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	verte	verte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	32	dep	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	VAIRT	vairt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
39	.	.	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | most colours | e |  |  |  | with a feminine noun | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent e=Patient with noun=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **vert** | infinitive | e *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present | e *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the t |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **vert** | infinitive | un pull | une jupe |  |  |  |  | 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:7`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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