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title: To be sure of a red one and a blue one, imagine the worst luck: all… — Sure of one of each of two colours · tree and pragmatics
description: To be sure of a red one and a blue one, imagine the worst luck: all the others come first, and of red and blue only the larger colour. Who acts: others. A sentence of the lesson «Sure of one of each of two colours» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Sure of one of each of two colours, sentence 0

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To be sure of a red one and a blue one, imagine the worst luck: all the others come first, and of red and blue only the larger colour.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** be, imagine, come · **To what, where:** worst luck

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sure of one of each of two colours» of the lessons 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 (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:182-pigeonhole-both-colours.lesson:0
# text = To be sure of a red one and a blue one, imagine the worst luck: all the others come first, and of red and blue only the larger colour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 182-pigeonhole-both-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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of a red one and a blue one; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | infinitive |  | the worst luck |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot luck=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | all others |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:lessons:182-pigeonhole-both-colours.lesson:0`.

**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, 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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