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title: The unlucky hand takes every green one and every one of the larger c… — Sure of one of each of two colours · tree and pragmatics
description: The unlucky hand takes every green one and every one of the larger colour of red and blue, and still lacks the other colour; one more is sure. Who acts: unlucky hand, one. 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
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# Sure of one of each of two colours, sentence 1

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The unlucky hand takes every green one and every one of the larger colour of red and blue, and still lacks the other colour; one more is sure.

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**Who acts:** unlucky hand, one · **What happens:** take, lack, be · **To what, where:** green one, other colour

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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 (unlucky hand, one), 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:1
# text = The unlucky hand takes every green one and every one of the larger colour of red and blue, and still lacks the other colour; one more is sure.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	lacks	lack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	conj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **take** | present | the unlucky hand | every green one and every one of the larger colour of red |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **lack** | present | the unlucky hand *not said here* | the other colour |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | 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:lessons:182-pigeonhole-both-colours.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): R3-conj-first ×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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