--- title: With three colours, the unlucky hand holds one less than wanted of e… — Sure of several of the same colour · tree and pragmatics description: With three colours, the unlucky hand holds one less than wanted of every colour; the very next one makes the wish come true. Who acts: unlucky hand, next one, wish. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unlucky hand, next one, wish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:lessons:181-pigeonhole-same-colour.lesson:1 # text = With three colours, the unlucky hand holds one less than wanted of every colour; the very next one makes the wish come true. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = lessons # lesson = 181-pigeonhole-same-colour.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 ×1 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 unlucky unlucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 obj _ _ 10 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 12 advmod _ _ 11 than than ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 very very ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | the unlucky hand | one | | | | with three colours | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 2 | **want** | past | | | | | | of every colour | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **make** | present | the next one | the wish | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | infinitive | the wish *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:lessons:181-pigeonhole-same-colour.lesson:1`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Sure of several of the same colour, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/181-pigeonhole-same-colour/0/) - next →: [Sure of several of the same colour, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/181-pigeonhole-same-colour/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/181-pigeonhole-same-colour/)